Re: not for 1.1

[andrew@toaster.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)]

Raul Miller writes:
> 
> How much storage would it take to make everything in /bin and /sbin
> statically linked?
> 
> Rational:  these programs are critical for using the system under
> degraded conditions.  Sometimes /lib will not be available.

If you do this I'd want to see a /bin/sh that was statically linked
bash with maybe some stuff taken out of it.

and a /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash that was dynamically linked. I don't
really want to waste heaps of memory with lots of statically linked
bashes running.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au 
Perth, Western Australia		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au