From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 04/14/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: The dangers of playing with shared libraries
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 16:25:46 GMT

In article <1qfot4$tin@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) writes:
> This is what the bootable rootdisk is for. I have yet to see a good
>argument for why the bootable rootdisk cannot be used instead of specially
>staticly linked binaries to fix screwups with the sharable libraries.

Nobody said it *couldn't* be used... but a strategic statically-linked binary
could be used to fix things more quickly and without a reboot. If you want to
repair things *without* blowing off that program that's been churning in the
background for an hour, you want tools that are installed on the running
system.

And while pdksh is certainly smaller than bash, rc is smaller yet... and the
bootable rootdisk is already squeezed for space.

In any case, I didn't say -- or intend --- that all those suggestions should
actually be followed; I was just commenting on the individual suggestions
themselves. Personally, I have the bootable rootdisk because I don't really
*have* any big background churners on my system (yet :-)

++Brandon 

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