On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 13:50:25 +0100
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

> Le 06/11/2021 à 03:03, Steve Litt a écrit :
> > Personally, I want a directory, guaranteed not to be a mount point,
> > where the statically compiled binaries necessary to bring up the
> > system, things like mount and ln and vi and fsck, etc, so if I don't
> > want to, I don't have to run an initramfs.
>
>     Hi Steve. It seems you always understand the s of sbin as meaning
> "static". it isn't. Look at Devuan binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin; they
> are dynamically linked. s stands for "system".
>
>  # file /bin/mount
> /bin/mount: setuid ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1
> (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
> BuildID[sha1]=82eb1fdddc0083f599c4072f4e1a39e28de6c759, for GNU/Linux
> 3.2.0, stripped
>
> What is called "interpreter" here is the dynamic linker associated to
> the shared version of gcc, the Gnu C library. There is practically no
> statically linked application in a Debian distribution, except some part
> of debootstrap.
>
> --     Didier
>

Hi,
on my system there are just a couple:

/bin/sash:               ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=433ea9ce7bb7462db5f83bd9bd4e59535b826cc9, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
/sbin/e2fsck.static: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=b6cb05441d3e0215639e4445ca0d1947ac26ab43, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

and in the repos:

bash-static/stable 5.1-2+b3 amd64
busybox-static/stable 1:1.30.1-6+b3 amd64
cdebootstrap-static/stable 0.7.8+b3 amd64
dar-static/stable 2.6.13-2+b3 amd64
zsh-static/stable 5.8-6+b2 amd64

Ciao,
Tito