[Info-vax] CLI editing, was: Re: VMS - Virtual Terminals - A security risk way back yonder OR was that an Old Wives Tale ?

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On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 3:10:40 PM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> But Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OS X all have the shells in /bin, as far as 
> I can tell, and all have them linked dynamically.

FreeBSD has a whole set of stuff statically linked in /rescue. For example:

(0:2) pool4:/sysprog/terry# file /rescue/sh 
/rescue/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, for FreeBSD 10.2 (1002509), stripped
(0:3) pool4:/sysprog/terry# ls /rescue | wc
     144     144    1088
(0:4) pool4:/sysprog/terry# file /rescue/* | grep statically | wc -l
     142
(0:5) pool4:/sysprog/terry# file /rescue/* | grep -v statically 
/rescue/dhclient-script: a /rescue/sh script, ASCII text executable
/rescue/nextboot:        a /rescue/sh script, ASCII text executable