On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:07:47AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > If you can't see the difference between a binary and a library it's > > probably unuseful. > > The difference is technically really minimal. Look at glibc for > example, which you can run as a normal binary as well. With the same reasoning you can also dlopen() a program if you compile and link it for that, but that's not the usual case. Libraries also have PIC normally and programs don't. I think there is a big enough difference between a library and a normal binary. > > I think it's better to not have binaries in /usr/lib. > > Why? Do you want to move scripts into /etcexec as well? No, in /libexec. That's the place where the Hurd scripts are. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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