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voidfunc
on April 6, 2022
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Debian still having trouble with merged /usr
I always understood it as statically linked binaries that could be used regardless of the state of the rest of the system.
gompertz
on April 6, 2022
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Both /bin and /sbin are generally statically linked. So you're not wrong; but primarily sbin is intended to mean "executed by root" above all else.
monocasa
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Looking through my /bin and /sbin, none of the files are statically linked.
gompertz
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Hrmm what distro? I haven't looked in sometime, maybe something changed (Slackware here). My understanding was static linkage in boot related folders was to minimize chance of accidentally losing a library/dependency and breaking booting.
monocasa
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Looked at both Debian and Redhat.
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How can one discern whether a file is statically linked?
remram
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file(1) or ldd(1)
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