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

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jul 20 17:20:00 GMT 2016


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.

I think sln / static ldconfig are recovery tools for *when already logged 
in* (and having just made a mistake with the links).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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