cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sun Feb 22 16:40:24 PST 2004


At 11:14 PM +0000 2/22/04, Colin Percival wrote:
>At 23:00 22/02/2004, Wes Peters wrote:
>>Wow.  Did you read the reams of bikeshedding that have taken
>>place on this very topic before jumping into this?
>
>   Yes, I did.  And I posted to -current, saying "this is what
>I'm planning on doing, does anyone object?".  And nobody objected.
>
>>Don't be surprised if the anti-code-bloat legions call for a
>>backout.
>
>   As bde has already pointed out (by private email), it's not clear
>why nologin is in /sbin anyway.

My memory fails me.  Wasn't there some specific reason that nologin
is statically-linked?  At this point, most programs in /sbin are not
statically-linked.

It seems to me I should remember this, but I'm operating on very
little sleep at the moment...

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