[plug] /sbin and static programs

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Mar 11 01:53:39 WST 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:52, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> > BSDs tend to treat /sbin as though it stands for "static binaries"
> > rather than "system binaries", but SysV treats is less like that.
> 
> >From my experience, BSDs use /sbin for system binaries still, but
> more specifically, the contents of /bin and /sbin must be statically
> linked.

Hasn't that just been changed in FreeBSD 5, so that a dynamically linked
/bin and /sbin are the usual setup?

Craig Ringer




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