From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 06:33:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC32116A4E1 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCA843FCB for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (bicknell@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAJEXBeC096479 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:33:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id hAJEXBYE096478 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:33:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:33:11 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031119143311.GA96408@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home> <20031119141059.GA14308@madman.celabo.org> <20031119141950.GA95734@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20031119142535.GA27610@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119142535.GA27610@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: United Federation of Planets X-PGP-Key: http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:33:13 -0000 --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message written on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Ken Smith wr= ote: > Roughly the same thing was bothering me last night. You get a chance > to specify the shell when init is in the last phase of getting you to > single-user mode so you can say /rescue/sh at that point. init is > another story and I asked someone about that, they said it either is > or will shortly be a loader option so you can override that to be > /rescue/init that way. Perhaps /rescue/sh should be the default when booting into single user. The more I think about init the more I don't like dynamic linking for it. init needs to have as few failure modes as possible. I do still think it's fine for all the other /bin and /sbin things. --=20 Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/u38nNh6mMG5yMTYRAvo5AJ9BT5GncLHb2bjJVOorAEFnmAEAVQCfSV5k my3fTttJxcpFm0mS1JFfUFc= =Ve2S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--