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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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A: dng
Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Avoid the merge
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 03:35:39AM -0600, hal wrote:
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> On 12/13/22 16:59, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> > Steve Litt [13/12/2022 16.28]:
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> > > I meant statically linked. If you can only open your root partition at
> > > the start, executables can't depend on loadable libraries. I'm pretty
> > > sure that "sbin" originally stood for "static binaries".
> >
> > No. Dynamically linked binaries came much later (SunOS?) than /sbin.
> >
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> Just to muddy the water here, back in the mid '90s a Solaris admin told me /sbin was for "system binaries". Not sure if that was by his own definition or not.


That's certainly what I always considered it to mean.

-- hendrik