From: David Hassel (benu@cis.umassd.edu)
Date: 03/10/93 

From: benu@cis.umassd.edu (David Hassel)
Subject: /bin files should not be linked with shared libs!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:07:59 GMT

        I know there has already been a discussion on this issue but /bin
file should not be linked with shared libs. A good example of this is how
would you boot if libc.so.xx got corrupted? I made the silly mistake of
removing the link to libc.so.4 and expected to re-ln it immediately.
ln, cp, cat, etc all were linked against the [missing] shared library.

        I do have a boot floppy but not one that knows about extended Minix
file systems. So I can't boot off of floppy and re-install the link
until a get a better boot disk.

        Therefore I suggest any files in /bin should not be linked with
shared libs!