On 1/23/25 2:17 PM, John Mellor wrote:
On 2025-01-23 2:51 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 06:00 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
. . .
2) Are we forgetting why we have the concept of statically linked
binaries?
What does that have to do with where they are?
If I may offer some insight:
In the Unix philosophy, everything in /sbin is statically linked. Things
in /bin may be statically linked, but more normally are dynamic. The
root user PATH normally has /sbin and /usr/sbin before the others, while
normal users have that reversed or even leave /sbin and /usr/sbin out
altogether. This makes a difference when you are trying to recover a
system in the middle of the night. With tools like vi, sed, grep, mount
etc. being statically linked, there are less dependencies required to
get basic recovery tools working, increasing the likelihood that you can
get the system at least partially back up without having to reinstall
and lose mission-critical data.
sbin being for static binaries is ancient history. More recently it's
for system (superuser) binaries. I checked my sbin directory and the
only statically linked binary there is "ldconfig".
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