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Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
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Leo Bicknell wrote:
> The more I think about init the more I don't like dynamic linking for
> it.  init needs to have as few failure modes as possible.  I do still
> think it's fine for all the other /bin and /sbin things.

Right now, /sbin/init is statically linked.

Tim Kientzle