Re: init bug / crash recovery

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
17 Mar 1996 08:33:00 GMT


Followup to: <199603151442.JAA06592@sunspot.tiac.net>
By author: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>=20
> Why on earth is something as critical as e2fsck dynamically linked, a=
nyway?
>=20

On most systems it isn't, which is IMHO dumb. Count the number of
binaries you need to get to the point where you can e2fsck (init, sh
at the very least), then check if *they* are all statically linked.

-hpa

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