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Date:      Sun, 01 Sep 1996 05:12:31 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Thomas J Balfe <tbalfe@tioga.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftpd? 
Message-ID:  <199609011212.FAA01995@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Sep 1996 07:54:07 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960901074849.5791A-100000@falcon.tioga.com> 

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>Strange. I wanted on the fly compression like wcarchive does, so I stuck 
>compress, tar and gzip in /usr/ftp/usr/bin, then chmod 111 them. I 
>changed /usr/local/etc/ftpconversions to reflect the chroot() binaries. 
>It works. Great. But, how? They are supposed to dynamically linked! Do they 
>inherit ftpd's libc and work that way or is it some sort of kernel thing 
>that isn't supposed to be that way or am I somewhat dazed and confused? 
>Now a sleepless night turns into a sleepless day.

   compress, tar, and gzip are built static, not dynamic.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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