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Turning dynamic into static?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence R. Rogers)
Thu Nov 9 13:37:14 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 08:10:32 -0500
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From: "Lawrence R. Rogers" <lrr@cert.org>
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Speaking of shared object libraries and dynamic linking, is it possible to
turned a dynamically linked program into a static one with ld, ld.so, whatever?
If possible, Sun could distributed /usr/bin/login as a dynamically linked program and those who wish could make it static.
Consider the sysadmin who needs a set of known tools that they can carry around on a floppy, tools like ps, netstat, ifconfig, etc. Those tools would be imune to various types of corruption of a system, changes to shared object libraries for example. Sure, one could fetch GNU tools and build them statically but the vendor's tools may be preferrable.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Larry Rogers
Member, Technical Staff
Trustworthy Systems
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
lrr@cert.org
lrr@sei.cmu.edu
