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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:57:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making a dynamically-linked root
Message-ID:  <16092.36129.388194.477452@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030603115432.EGLB13328.out002.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net>
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Mike Makonnen writes:
 > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
 > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a
 > > shell to interpret that script.  Regardless of how the parent is
 > > linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added
 > > cost to exec'ing it.
 > 
 > and these are usually perl, php, or compiled cgi programs, not /bin/sh.
 > 

Ok, maybe a webserver is a bad example.  But you must admit that
/bin/sh is commonly used outside the startup scripts.

Drew



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