From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand) Subject: Re: /bin files should not be linked with shared libs! Date: 12 Mar 1993 17:28:55 GMT
In article <C3oypC.27z@umassd.edu> benu@cis.umassd.edu (David Hassel) writes:
>
> 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.
> Therefore I suggest any files in /bin should not be linked with
>shared libs!
Funny you should mention this. AIX (3.2?) makes the same mistake.
... I thought YOU had the boot tape! (sigh)
jim
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