On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:34:00 +0100 (CET) k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > I was told that the "s" in /sbin and /usr/sbin stands for *staticly* > > built binaries. > > Interesting, but it seems not be the case now: > > # ldd /sbin/ifconfig > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7741000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 > (0xb75c0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7742000)
IIRC in the good old days it was for staticly linked binaries. I know there are dynamically linked binaries over there nowadays. I'm not sure if it's really true this story, but it sounds quite logically to me. -- richard lucassen http://contact.xaq.nl/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
