From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: The dangers of playing with shared libraries Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 00:31:07 GMT
In article <1993Apr15.222503.32186@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>In article <1qhml1$1i5k@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>>I don't understand why people are so vehemently against have a /sbin.
>>Even *Sun* got that right.
>
>(1) Have you looked at the size of SunOS recently?
>(2) On a Sun it's even *more* annoying: you have to boot from CD-ROM.
Nonetheless, I do not see any reason why people could not add a sbin
directory. All we really want is perhaps two or three binaries that would be
required to fix a screwed symlink, not the complete set. Those of us that hack
the shared libraries always keep a staticly linked ln lying around, and it is
beginning to appear that regular users might also like this safety net. I
suggest that someone who really cares create a set of staticly linked binaries
from the fileutils package, and create an sbin distribution so that anyone who
wants can throw this on their hard disk.
-Eric
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