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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ksh93
To: n@nectar.com (Jacques A. Vidrine)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:54:31 +0200 (EET)
Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev), freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <20010228144526.A54409@spawn.nectar.com> from "Jacques A. Vidrine" at Feb 28, 2001 02:45:26 PM
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> 
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Well, inaccessible /usr excludes possibility to log-in remotely
> > (inetd lives in /usr as well as demons from /usr/libexec). Therefore,
> > in such case static non-standard shell in /bin makes little or
> > no difference as user has to attend console anyway.
> 
> Correct, just as in the case of a broken libc.so.

Not always. In the case of incompatible ABI changes (e.g. recent
libc madness) parts of the base may work because they are built
as part of the world, while any or all third-party apps will be
hosed.

-Maxim

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