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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Subject: Re: sendmail frozen config and Sun shared libraries
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In article <1991Jun4.173143.29157@watmath.waterloo.edu>, gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:

|> ...There is obviously some trick to
|> saving the data segment of a dynamically-linked program (as is done by
|> sendmail -bz).  Does anybody know what it is?

Yeah....don't do it.  :-)

Seriously, unless you have a long and complicated configuration file,*
freezing buys you very little.  Freezing used to be necessary on 
machines like VAXes and Sun 2's that took forever to do anything, but
I have found that on SPARC stations and even Sun 3's the performance
difference is usually negligible.

*Some people would claim that a sendmail configuration file is long
 and complicated by definition!

		William LeFebvre