Previously Jules Bean wrote: > Not much there on statically linked files at all. Anyone care to point me > to a discussion on this? I can't find it anymore, although I'm sure it is somewhere. Basically it comes down to this: compiling everything static makes the /sbin tree much bigger, and thus more likely to get hit by corruption. If you use dynamically linked programs everything is smaller and thus reducing the risk of things getting corrupted. But on the downside if libc is corrupted you still loose. Either way it's a tradeoff. Our current system has been working for years and I don't see any need to chance it. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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