Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:20:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: imp@bsdimp.com Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <20031120022009.GB29530@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3FBC2053.6040208@mindspring.com> References: <62981.24.0.61.35.1069202574.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> <200311190103.hAJ13Nlg000923@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031119015433.GN30485@roark.gnf.org> <3FBC2053.6040208@mindspring.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 19), Richard Coleman said: > I don't really care whether everything is statically or dynamically > linked. With the fast machines and huge disks these days, bloat is not > much of an issue. But nss and pam need to work correctly. If the folks > that are against dynamic linking have an alternate method to make this > work, I'm all for it. But it needs to be more than theory. We need code. > > To be honest, I've never understood the (seemingly irrational) > resistance against this change. Solaris made this change 10 years ago. Not completely: $ uname -a SunOS pd1 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise $ file /bin/sh /sbin/sh: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, statically linked, stripped $ file /sbin/* | grep statically | cut -d: -f1 | fmt /sbin/autopush /sbin/fdisk /sbin/jsh /sbin/mount /sbin/sh /sbin/soconfig /sbin/sync /sbin/umount /sbin/uname -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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