From: David I. Bell (dbell@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au)
Date: 04/13/93


From: dbell@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au (David I. Bell)
Subject: Re: The dangers of playing with shared libraries
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 01:52:29 GMT


>(2) A statically-linked shell has been suggested. Of the currently available
> ones, I would have to suggest rc just because it's compact... the concept
> of a statically linked "bash" makes me think of a "bashdisk" containing
> nothing *but* bash because nothing else will fit :-)

With respect to statically linked shells and a small set of needed utilities,
I am about to announce "sash", which is designed to solve all these problems.
It should appear within a couple of days. (I don't have ftp write access, so
I have to ask to put it on an ftp site.) If that fails, than I'll post it
here as a shar file.

-dbell-