Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

[Jan Grant]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 dyson at iquest.net wrote:

> Garrett Wollman said:
> > <<On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:07:32 -0500 (EST), dyson at iquest.net said:
> >
> > > If the object is to maximally 'share',
> >
> > The object, AIUI, is for ~username expansion to work in the shells
> > when the user stored somewhere defined by an external NSS module.  I
> > don't believe that there is anything else in a (sane) shell that
> > cares.
> >
> It is a fallacy that EVERYTHING (e.g. libc) needs to be dynamically
> linked to support that feature.  A single, self contained library
> that might even be sparse WRT memory isn't going to hurt much.

It's a fallacy that ANYTHING (except nscd/lookupd) needs to be
dynamically linked to support that feature :-)

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