Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

On 1/23/25 2:17 PM, John Mellor wrote:
> 
> On 2025-01-23 2:51 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2025-01-23 at 06:00 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> 2) Are we forgetting why we have the concept of statically linked 
>>> binaries?
>> What does that have to do with where they are?
> 
> If I may offer some insight:
> 
> In the Unix philosophy, everything in /sbin is statically linked. Things 
> in /bin may be statically linked, but more normally are dynamic. The 
> root user PATH normally has /sbin and /usr/sbin before the others, while 
> normal users have that reversed or even leave /sbin and /usr/sbin out 
> altogether.  This makes a difference when you are trying to recover a 
> system in the middle of the night. With tools like vi, sed, grep, mount 
> etc. being statically linked, there are less dependencies required to 
> get basic recovery tools working, increasing the likelihood that you can 
> get the system at least partially back up without having to reinstall 
> and lose mission-critical data.

sbin being for static binaries is ancient history.  More recently it's 
for system (superuser) binaries.  I checked my sbin directory and the 
only statically linked binary there is "ldconfig".

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