Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:57:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <16092.36129.388194.477452@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030603115432.EGLB13328.out002.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> References: <20030603113927.I71313@cvs.imp.ch> <16092.35144.948752.554975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030603115432.EGLB13328.out002.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net>
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Mike Makonnen writes: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT) > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > > > > > Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a > > shell to interpret that script. Regardless of how the parent is > > linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added > > cost to exec'ing it. > > and these are usually perl, php, or compiled cgi programs, not /bin/sh. > Ok, maybe a webserver is a bad example. But you must admit that /bin/sh is commonly used outside the startup scripts. Drew
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