On 08/09/2012 04:02 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: >> Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more >> than libc is stupid and dangerous. > > Why do you say?
Because libc supposedly should be stable, other libraries are a bit more prone to radical changes and other annoyances. You wouldn't like to reboot your system if you replace/update dbus or glib, do you? > And why is libc different from other libraries, say libuuid or > libext2fs? I mean: Why allow pid 1 to require libc, it could > just be statically linked. Actually statically linked initial process would be another reason why you'd like to NOT use large libraries and in large number. Obviously if you are thinking about desktop and not system in which replacing kernels should be done w/out downtime (qnx and some linux patches let you do that) it isn't a huge concern. Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and most of the times I don't have even to restart X... lu
