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masfuertelast Wednesday at 12:28 AM1 replyview on HN

Various things including name (DNS) resolution rely on dynamic linking.


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Jeayelast Wednesday at 12:30 AM

Are you saying that a statically linked binary cannot make an HTTP request to `google.com` because it would be unable to resolve the domain name?

There are entire distros, like alpine, built on musl. I find this very hard to believe.

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