Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:23:43 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: peter@wemm.org Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, nate@root.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc size Message-ID: <20021030.222343.06947774.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org> References: <3DC04861.3C5E975B@mindspring.com> <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
: Terry Lambert wrote:
: > Nate Lawson wrote:
: > > Here is a link to the size of various components of libc, sorted by text
: > > size. If you can find some way to reduce or even remove some of this,
: > > please submit a patch.
: > >
: > > http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/lib_size.out
: >
: > Move the resolver code out to ibresolv.so, and link libc.so
: > against libresolv.so so that legacy applications are happy, as
: > long as they are compiled shared. Non-network apps can ignore
: > most of it. Internal use of some of the biggest chunks is
: > limited, so this should avoid dragging in a lot of it.
:
: We've been over this before. To make this work right, we need to make
: /bin and /sbin dynamically linked. NetBSD's /rescue/* approach would
: solve the "oops!" and other foot shooting problems.
Let's make / and /usr on the same partition by default, which makes
this easy... :-)
Warner
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