On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:34:00 +0100 (CET)
karl@??? wrote:

> > I was told that the "s" in /sbin and /usr/sbin stands for *staticly*
> > built binaries.
>
> Interesting, but it seems not be the case now:
>

> # ldd /sbin/ifconfig 
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7741000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> (0xb75c0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7742000)

IIRC in the good old days it was for staticly linked binaries. I know
there are dynamically linked binaries over there nowadays. I'm not sure
if it's really true this story, but it sounds quite logically to me.

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