On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Linda Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> wrote: [cut a lot about dynamic linking and the linux kernel] > Even bash can load many of it's builtin's dynamically -- but if they > aren't there, it could use the same named-programs -- and I don't > think it "falls-over" and dies if it can't dynamically load a builtin -- > it just looks for the same name in the path.
There are loadable builtins but I don't believe it is true that they can magically self-load as you describe. The closest this comes to the truth is that many builtins have corresponding programs in /bin, for the use of programs that don't have them builtin or for entities that might naïvely search the PATH looking for things which are legal to execute. (Some unices even include a /bin/cd for that reason, as pointless as that would otherwise be.) Did the rest of your message have anything to do with bash? You were trying to build a static version... you've been told how... was there more?
