Re: why crypt in ed?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

>isn't having a tightly built ed a compelling reason enough?
>btw, why is /bin/ed dynamically linked?
>wouldn't it need to be usable even under extreme conditions?
>just my inexperience showing! ;)

We link everything dynamically except stuff in /rescue (and there is
ed there). There is an option to build root statically but I don't
think it has been tested in years.

christos