* Justin Wells said: > OK, then let's put in the Debian Policy a line noting that Debian should not, > by default, be usable as a production server. You are not going to > have too many friends if you think people on this list is going to > accept that. Exactly.... > As for memory cost, once again, tell me how many simultaneous copies > of fsck, fsck, mke2fs, dpkg, and so forth you commonly run on your > system. 1000? > > A common desktop system with 10-20 users logged in is not going to > launch very many 200k copies of ls and sh. If you managed to launch 100 > of them, you would have only used 20megs. And that's assuming that people > are silly enough to use 'sh' as their default shell rather than the > dynamically linked /bin/bash instead. Besides, what's the problem to name those binaries e.g. ls.static and simply use a static emergency shell with an alias capability (sash has it) to do: alias ls=/bin/ls.static ... ... alias cat=/bin/cat.static should they be needeed in case of failure. Then you never use static bins when the system is in normal mode. regards, marek
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