From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Subject: Re: /bin files should not be linked with shared libs! Date: 12 Mar 1993 04:38:04 GMT
In <1993Mar11.021924.20199@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
...
>Come to think of it, statically linked umount.static, mount.static and
>cp.static would be enough to fix almost any shared-lib related
>problem. No?
I feel strongly that at least mount should be linked statically. Why? Well, I
too have shot myself in the foot when updating shared libaries, and a shared
ln. So, I slam in the backup root disk (which has static binaries) and fire off
a mount. No go. mount wasn't linked static. So I'm hosed and have to reboot
off the backup.
I know, I know. I'm lazy because I don't want to reboot. But I think with a
system in dire straits one should at least be able to mount a filesystem to
get at backup files or working binaries...
-Chris
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