Considering that glibc contains things like Sun RPC, I think that this is a sensible approach. It would be nice if Dietlibc would become more compliant...
On 5/12/06, quanstro@quanstro.net <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> isn't wrong to blame shared libraries for this? don't misunderstand --- shared
> libraries have plenty of drawbacks --- but this seems at first glance to be a problem with
> the crossproduct of bloated applications and glibc badness?
I have a strong feeling that if you kick out glibc and prepare more
sensible set of core libraries (keeping all standard-compliant
functions + things like RSBAC), most of linux badness would vanish....
:D
> and yes, things are getting kludgy.
>
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Paul Lasek