Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2522 mails)

[corsepiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ralf Corsepius)]

Koos Pol wrote:
> 
> At 22:39 02/07/00, you wrote:
> >         I did not suggest that. It all depends on the kind of use you put
> >your computer to.
> 
> Agreed. Does raise the question though, where all the statically linked
> programs from /sbin have gone. The -s- in /sbin is for "static" 
This is a common misinterpretation of the 's' in "/sbin"

The 's' stands for "system" and is designated to contain
"non-essential system binaries" not to be used by "ordinary" users
(cf. the /sbin section in the FHS). 

As executables in /sbin often are executed in single-user mode,
without having optional filesystems mounted, binaries under /sbin
may not be dynamically linked against libraries in secondary (eg.
/usr/lib) or optional filesystem hierarchies (eg. /opt/kde/lib) *or*
have to be statically linked.

Under Linux, this in practice means that binaries under /sbin can be
dynamically linked against libraries below /lib but not be
dynamically linked against libraries located elsewhere.

Ralf


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