From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 13:06:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1504416A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0656C43F75 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hANL6DfY019421; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hANL6BD8019420; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:06:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:06:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brad Knowles Message-ID: <20031123210611.GA19390@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3FBE8D92.6080205@acm.org> <20031123012222.GB11523@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:06:21 -0000 On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:42:58AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 5:22 PM -0800 2003/11/22, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Please, NO. There wasn't an FTP client available for this type of > > recovery pre-/rescue, there shouldn't be one now. > > Why? Why cut your nose off to spite your face? Even though this > capability may not have existed before, why shouldn't we have it now? Lets build all of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin static then. You would have all kinds of capability you didn't before. /rescue is the consession made between those that want a dynamic / and those that want a static /. Its purpose is only to allow one to do the things they could before with a static /. It is not to become a can or worms that ends up being a duplicate of 50% of the system. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)