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/bin And /sbin Now Dynamically Linked In FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the seen-at-same-nightclub dept.

Dan writes "Gordon Tetlow just committed a patch in FreeBSD current to change /bin and /sbin from statically to dynamically linked. The reason to do this is two-fold. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This feature can be disabled in a buildworld by defining the Makefile (make.conf) variable WITHOUT_DYNAMICROOT. Note that statically-linked, crunched executables are available in the /rescue directory for use during system repair and recovery operations."

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  1. Frosty piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, yes, it is.

  2. hey guess what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dynamically linked /bin and /sbin are dying. HURBLE BURBLE I LIKE POO

  3. The Editor war is over : Vim won! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After decades of war, it is finally over. Emacs has lost and is dying a bloody death!

    The Marketshare of emacs has dropped to just 13%

    In fact, its not even Second place anymore, its been overthrown by Kate, the Kde Advanced Text Editor, which has 19% of the market.

    Emacs is dying a horrible fate, it is outdated, still uses an Athena GUI while VIM has ports to the Qt and GTK toolkits. With less and less distrobutions shipping emacs and opting for VIM as default, who knows what will happen.

    Emacs is very sick, if it is to survive at all it will be with Debian Zealots, along with the gnu/hurd and Aging LISP workstations.

    It is a sad they for the Church of Emacs, and its a cold cold day in hell.

  4. Re:Bad if not included with non-dyn executables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We must report with a heavy heart that Bob "I'm still dead" Hope has gone on to join the "B" team. As you all may know, BSD has been part of the "B" team for quite some time.

    The Year of Our Lord 2003 has been a particularly bad year for the "B"s,

    • Bob Hope
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Buddy Hackett
    • Barry White
    • BSD
    This honored list of dead is but a small token of adieu from the many fans of the deceased.
    These dead were truly some American Icons. They will certainly be missed.
  5. Re:Bad if not included with non-dyn executables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the BSD administrator, yup that is about the best way to put it.