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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Major strcmp bug under BSD 2.0? Message-ID: <id.22MK1.V1C@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3qfn52$188j@troy.la.locus.com> <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu> <id.M4KK1.Q5F@nmti.com> <3r87kr$bbo@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:08:18 GMT Lines: 30 In article <3r87kr$bbo@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: > peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > ] In article <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu>, > ] Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: > ] > So, in the special case of a failure that specifically targets > ] > ld.so (I suppose it, for some reason, has worse karma than than > ] > init, sh, and all the other programs in /sbin, for the sake of > ] > argument 8-)) > ] Yes, it is worse karma. If I "rm /bin/sh" I can still run commands that > ] aren't scripts. If I "rm ld.so" I can't run anything. And just about > ] anything else I delete will impact me less than /bin/sh. > This is why Sun, at least, has what they call a "miniroot" install, This is the equivalent of a boot floppy, and it's not enough. As I said before, I have been in the situation where the system was working, but crippled, on a file system that was not fixable. I've been in that situation on Suns, even. See my flame a few months back about Sun shipping Seacrate hard disks in pizzabox enclosures with inadequate cooling. In one case I managed to save off a bunch of files on a system where the first few cylinders had been formatted out from under me, thanks to the in-core copies of statically linked utilities. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"