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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Major strcmp bug under BSD 2.0?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 20:55:08 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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References: <3qfn52$188j@troy.la.locus.com> <3qvs1d$oj6@park.uvsc.edu> <3r0l05$58c@agate.berkeley.edu> <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu> <id.M4KK1.Q5F@nmti.com> <3r87kr$bbo@park.uvsc.edu>
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
>peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>] In article <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu>,
>] Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>] > So, in the special case of a failure that specifically targets
>] > ld.so (I suppose it, for some reason, has worse karma than than
>] > init, sh, and all the other programs in /sbin, for the sake of
>] > argument 8-))
>]
>] Yes, it is worse karma. If I "rm /bin/sh" I can still run commands that
>] aren't scripts. If I "rm ld.so" I can't run anything. And just about
>] anything else I delete will impact me less than /bin/sh.
>This is why Sun, at least, has what they call a "miniroot" install,
>where you put in the disk, it installs the "miniroot" binaries not
>related to configuration, overwriting/creating the bad/missing
>binaries that have been targeted by your selective file system
>sniper, and you're done.
Siemens Nixdorf use a similar scheme in Sinix. It lets you install
a complete mini-system in the swap area of you root disk, boot this
and then mount your filesystems for any necessary repairs.
Might be interesting.
Paddy
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