According to Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I still don't understand while binaries in /bin are NOT > >statically linked as the should be. Have a look at what BSD does. > >/bin an /sbin contains statically linked binaries :-) > > I have at least 10 shells open. Unless I am greatly mistaken, > running 10 static bash's would be quite severe on memory use.
That's right. But I didn't say to use them exclusively. A dynamically linked bash could be provided in /usr/bin/bash and could be used to provide user shells. But init spaw shell to startup daemon and all, and once they are started, those shells are no more. The other I couldn't EVEN boot my Linux box because of a bash that segfaulted due to a bad shared library. When it come to recover a system that for a reason or another, it is valuable. I know that Linux is hard to crash hard (unlike most non-UN*X system), but it is not reason to ignore this. Hub -- Betamaxed: When a technology is overtaken by an inferior, but better marketed, techology. Ex: "Apple was betamaxed out of the market by Microsoft".
