/bin And /sbin Now Dynamically Linked In FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on Monday November 17, 2003 @02:07AM 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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Re:Ant this news is ... by tigga · 2003-11-18 06:59 · Score: 0, Troll

A correctly set up Linux machine can be exactly as stable as a correctly set up BSD server. I mean "exactly" to be literal, as either one will run literally forever unless its hardware dies or it loses power.
Very often you have to spend a lot of time to setup Linux correctly. And second thing is upgradability, which is a mess in a Linux world.