[PATCH] sln: Install as a hard link to ldconfig

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/27/2016 01:33 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> I assumed it was intended as a recovery tool if something is wrong with the
>> DSO symbolic links, which is why I preserved it.  On the other hand, in this
>> day and age, systems will certainly not boot if simple binaries like ln cannot
>> run, and the system administrator will not be able to log in, so such recovery
>> actions appear rather unrealistic without the help of a rescue system.
>
>  Why?
>
>  E.g. booting Linux with `rw init=/bin/bash.static' has always worked for
> me, with the root filesystem mounted r/w and ready for any recovery
> actions, such as fixing up DSO symlinks.  And I see no reason for it to
> stop working even where an initial RAM disk is used, as an image of such a
> RAM disk is always self-contained and not used beyond early (pre-init)
> initialisation needed to pull the root and maybe console device drivers.

Most systems do not have bash.static, or require things like SELinux 
policy loading to keep the system in a working state before writing to 
the file system.

If you have something like bash.static, you can also run ln under ld.so.

Florian