Re: tlug: Re: static binaries (was: Re: tomsrtbt & glibc)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com> writes:

    Chris> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
    >> AFAIK it did not change.  ln and sync _must_ be statically
    >> linked or you couldn't update libc on a running system (or
    >> something like that).

    Chris> The /bin and /sbin everything-statically-linked convention
    Chris> predates Linux by quite a piece.

I'm vaguely aware of that, but my acquaintance with Unix internals
does _not_ predate Linux.  ;-)

So I was referring _only_ to the Linux FSSTND and its somewhat
generalized successor FHS; I should have made that clear.

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