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Obviously a few of these need work, but I've been in the unfortunate position of recovering a Linux system with a busted .so that broke almost all of coreutils,

by duped 5y ago

Obviously a few of these need work, but I've been in the unfortunate position of recovering a Linux system with a busted .so that broke almost all of coreutils, but cargo worked and so did the coreutils alternatives. Static linking is an absolute godsend.

otabdeveloper4 5y ago
Use busybox instead.
- duped 5y ago
  Doesn't help when `sudo` is broken ...
  - pseudalopex 5y ago
    How do these utils help when sudo is broken?
    - duped 5y ago
      What I wound up doing was getting a working shared library and editing the LD_PRELOAD, then getting sudo back to use normal coreutils.
      - GhettoComputers 5y ago
        I thought you would just end up doing everything as root lol
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  - mariusor 5y ago
    sudo and coreutils being broken are separate things though.
marcodiego 5y ago
In the old days, /sbin guarded statically linked binaries to used before dynamic link is available. Would surely help in this situation. Don't know exactly why that changed. EDIT: Just checked, it is still there! And... It doesn't contains sudo. Can't see a good reason why.