Making a dynamically-linked root

[Andrew Gallatin]

Mike Makonnen writes:
 > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
 > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a
 > > shell to interpret that script.  Regardless of how the parent is
 > > linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added
 > > cost to exec'ing it.
 > 
 > and these are usually perl, php, or compiled cgi programs, not /bin/sh.
 > 

Ok, maybe a webserver is a bad example.  But you must admit that
/bin/sh is commonly used outside the startup scripts.

Drew