From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 06:41:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24399 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 06:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24388 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 06:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA21370; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:39:47 +1100 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:39:47 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199901281439.BAA21370@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: axl@iafrica.com, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: NIS with HPUX 10.20 Cc: bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr, dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, meyerd1@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, mike@smith.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> No. installworld more or less assumes single user. > >This is really what I'm getting at. :-) > >If installworld assumes single-user mode, why do we install -C >ld-elf.so.1 ? The first time I asked this question, I didn't mention >single-user mode and your answer was that it's to protect "live >systems". What's so live about a single-user system that we can't assume >nothing else needs ld-elf.so.1 while we're smacking it? For ld.so, it seems to have been just to make things work in multi-user mode: > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/libexec/rtld-aout/Makefile,v > Working file: Makefile > head: 1.27 > ... > ---------------------------- > revision 1.16 > date: 1996/01/11 03:45:55; author: jdp; state: Exp; lines: +13 -2 > Install ld.so in a way that is safe even on a running system. > ---------------------------- Perhaps it is useful even in single user mode for `make -j2 world'. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message