[static] linking

[miah]

According to the FHS (www.pathname.com/fhs) its not required that binaries in /sbin be statically linked.  And if you put /lib on a seperate partiton you're really asking for trouble anyways.

-miah

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:55:56PM -0500, Patrick R. McManus wrote:
> [miah: Mar 19 15:33]
> > The application will also run faster...  But security is the reason you should do this.  
> 
> another key time is when your .so files are unavaible - like during
> boot/recovery time and your .so's are on another partition. For
> instance, it is helpful to have 'mount' statically linked.
> 
> 41 out of the 200 binaries in /sbin on the redhat 7.3 box I am writing
> this mail on are statically linked.
> 
> -P
> 
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