[plug] /sbin and static programs

[James Devenish]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403102124170.23996 at ob>
on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:33:12PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> After reading of Kimberly's woes, I looked in /sbin and was surprised
> to see (ldd /sbin/*) that most programs there were dynamically linked.
>   I _had_ thought the whole point of /sbin was for static binaries. Now it
> seems to be for sysadmin tools. Did I just make a big wrong assumption,
> or has it evolved?

BSDs tend to treat /sbin as though it stands for "static binaries"
rather than "system binaries", but SysV treats is less like that.
Sounds like `sln` is one vendor's response to the lack of
statically-linked binaries.