Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro (petro@auctionwatch.com) wrote:
> > All I'm asking for at this point is something that the rest of the
> > Unix World has done forever, a statically linked /sbin/sh for roots
> > use.
> >
> > Is this the first time someone has brought this up?
>
> Puhleaze:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+statically+linked+root+shell
One thing that comes to mind quite quickly is that statically linked
binaries are a major maintenance overhead. Every time a bug is fixed in
one of the libraries you use, you have to recompile the binary and
reupload, which is a particular pain when trying to freeze the base
system.
As a case in point, I had to do a non-maintainer upload of sash a couple
of months ago because it statically links against zlib and so needed to
be manually rebuilt to acquire the zlib security fix.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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