Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:33:11 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <20031119143311.GA96408@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <20031119142535.GA27610@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home> <20031119141059.GA14308@madman.celabo.org> <20031119141950.GA95734@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20031119142535.GA27610@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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In a message written on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Ken Smith wr=
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> Roughly the same thing was bothering me last night. You get a chance
> to specify the shell when init is in the last phase of getting you to
> single-user mode so you can say /rescue/sh at that point. init is
> another story and I asked someone about that, they said it either is
> or will shortly be a loader option so you can override that to be
> /rescue/init that way.
Perhaps /rescue/sh should be the default when booting into single user.
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.
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