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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: dynamic-vs-static linked /bin etc (was: Re: TCP latency)
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:29:41 GMT
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>> On 19 Jul 1996 12:49:17 GMT, nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson)
>> said:
JN> In article <4sn2bq$mmb@venus.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell
JN> <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
>> Huh? What does a floppy cost these days - maybe $.50? Or use
>> one of the ones the AOL keeps mailing out... A few minutes
>> with the 'yard' utility will get you a bootable floppy with a
>> compressed ramdisk image on the same or a second disk. You can
>> recover more than a mistake with shared libs with an
>> appropriate toolkit - or just use it to reload your backup
>> tape.
JN> How again did you say you were going to do this without a
JN> shell? Does linux mmap() in the shlibs? No shlib, no shell.
JN> No shell, hell of a time booting into single user mode.
No problem: You can boot into single user mode since the shlibs and
dynamic loader reside in /lib, also available immediately when
starting in single user mode. So there's no need for static linking in
/bin or /sbin.
Only if /lib is damaged you have a problem (but then, /bin/sh could be
damaged too). In that case there's always an emergency boot floppy
(with /bin/sh and /lib/* on it). I've done it like this for a long
time without any problems. And because of experiments or changes I had
to restore or rescue my system quite a few times.
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