Dynamic /bin support on FreeBSD

Dan writes "Gordon Tetlow has put together a patch to have /bin dynamically linked on FreeBSD. This is the first step on the way to having everything play nicely with ongoing work on getting NSS into the system. He cautions that the patch is preliminary and should probably be installed on a test machine."

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Re:Why

[renehollan]

Hopefully that one file would not be damaged in fs corruption.

Holy light bulb, Batman! (well, JDizzy, any way, to give proper credit). You've just given me an idea!!

Given that some executables are more important than others in reparing broken filesystems, this situation particularly exacerbated with crunched binaries, why not add error correcting codes to them, and use inteleaving techniques to mitigate single block errors? Yes, they would grow, but not likely to the limit of multiple complete copies.

Also, for sensitive dynamically linked libraries, perhaps the directory structure could be modified to have a common LD_LIBRARY_PATH for some system directories. Heck, never mind a mod: just make the loader sensitive to .ldpath symlinks in the directory of the executible.