From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 27 0:57:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FC737B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5R7vnBu047084; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by master.gorean.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g5R7vnQR082183; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Roger Marquis Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Legacy Static Linking (was: Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:28.resolv) In-Reply-To: <20020626183519.F36946-100000@roble.com> Message-ID: <20020627005639.O42503-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Roger Marquis wrote: > This makes a good case for doing away with static linking of system > binaries. I think you've got some good answers to this already, but I'd like to add that static /bin and /sbin are also useful for diskless booting. I don't think that they will go away any time soon. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message