Making a dynamically-linked root

Andrew Reilly areilly at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jun 9 04:12:48 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 17:29, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> And all else being
> equal, I'm fully of the belief that the increase in potential minor
> calamities (which some manual /rescue/* intervention can recover) is a
> small price to pay for some of the gains that a dynamic / gives.

Is static/dynamic necessarily a dichotomy?  As an example of an
intermediate state, couldn't a nominally dynamic /bin be built, but with
libc partially linked-in, in each case?  How much of /bin would then
have no further shared dependencies?

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Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>



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