From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 23:59:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.tbv.se (smtp2.tbv.se [193.15.92.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD47B37B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp2.tbv.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA58259 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:59:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from james.wilde@tbv.se) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.15.92.37), claiming to be "tbvhks12" via SMTP by smtp2.tbv.se, id smtpdh58255; Mon Oct 9 08:59:26 2000 From: "James A Wilde" To: "Send to questions" Subject: Self-contained binaries Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:01:37 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was mounted. However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the case on Solaris. Is it so in FreeBSD? TIA mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message