Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Cerha <mcerha@io.com> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se> Cc: Send to questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Self-contained binaries Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091153070.2260-100000@fnord.io.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIOEMPCAAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the > programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external > libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was > mounted. However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the > case on Solaris. Is it so in FreeBSD? The binaries for Solaris are in /sbin. /bin under Solaris is really a symlink to /usr/bin. FreeBSD has static binaries in /bin and /sbin. Single user mode on a Solaris system is quite unusable for anything other than partitioning your drives in my experience. --mtc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091153070.2260-100000>