>> No. installworld more or less assumes single user. > >This is really what I'm getting at. :-) > >If installworld assumes single-user mode, why do we install -C >ld-elf.so.1 ? The first time I asked this question, I didn't mention >single-user mode and your answer was that it's to protect "live >systems". What's so live about a single-user system that we can't assume >nothing else needs ld-elf.so.1 while we're smacking it?
For ld.so, it seems to have been just to make things work in multi-user mode: > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/libexec/rtld-aout/Makefile,v > Working file: Makefile > head: 1.27 > ... > ---------------------------- > revision 1.16 > date: 1996/01/11 03:45:55; author: jdp; state: Exp; lines: +13 -2 > Install ld.so in a way that is safe even on a running system. > ---------------------------- Perhaps it is useful even in single user mode for `make -j2 world'. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
