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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by greatgib on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:14PM (#24621286)
Security is a wrong argument. You can have dynamic loading and locked source folders and disabled LD_PRELOAD. At the opposite, remember that each statically loaded exe would have to constantly be updated/recompiled for all the libraries updates that they use or could let a lot of security holes opened for a long time.
Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by ghoward on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:24PM (#24623621)
On the flip side, with libraries that use version symbols, you need to update all of the versions, so dynamic linking might have some of the same problem.