Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:18:41PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * 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.
I meant parser in the sense that sash already has a parser -- ie, sash
source's the file when it starts, no more, no less. This functionality
is almost in sash already, as it already has a source command. (Note:
there are some subtleties in implementing this, which I don't really have
time to go into right now, but if anyone is about to right the code then
you might want to email me first to get my ideas.)
-- Nathaniel
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