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Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues



* Panu Hällfors said:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 05:46:02PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > We should not have a seperate UID 0 account.  Doing so will be bad from a
> > security standpoint, and gain us nothing.
> 
> Agreed. Keeping things simple never hurts anyone.
> 
> > 1) add to sash the ability to parse a ~/.sash_profile on startup.  In that
> >    file put the line "exec /bin/bash".  If bash is broken, the exec will fail
> >    and leave you in sash
> 
> This sounds very good.
It's not. Putting a parser into a static binary is a waste of space.
Especially for the purpose sash has been created for.

marek

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