>>>>> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:57 -0700 (PDT), Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL
>>>>> PROTECTED]> said:
Robert> On Sun, April 5, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My assumption is that /bin/sh is VERY important to the system.
>> All server scripts use it. A dangling symlink could be hazardous.
>> Also, some systems initially mount only certain directories. And
>> /etc is sometimes on a different partition entirely. /bin should
>> stand on its own.
Robert> *NO* dynamically linked binary (this includes /sbin/init and
Robert> /bin/sh) will run without /etc/ld.so.cache:
This is untrue. if no ld.so.cache file exists the dynamic linker will
default to manually searching /lib and /usr/lib (in fact it does this
if the ld.so.cache doesn't contain the library that is needed).
> strace ls
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
Dres
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