Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:12:52 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 Message-ID: <200111221012.fAMACqN35344@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20011122015842.T9998-100000@delplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:11:08 %2B1100." References: <20011122015842.T9998-100000@delplex.bde.org>
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> The bloat in /bin/sh has very little to do with having printf in it. > It has grown from 90K text in FreeBSD-1 to 590K text today. It is > now 50% larger than the 3.5-year old bash-1 that I normally use. > Most of the bloat is in libraries, mostly for getpwnam() (a null > program statically linked to getpwnam() has size 300K text). > getpwnam() is used solely for expansion of "~". This feature was > left out of FreeBSD-1 to save 50K or so (getpwnam() was much less > bloated in FreeBSD-1). You may be able to get getpwnam() a lot smaller by building without YP (AKA NIS). M -- o Mark Murray \_ FreeBSD Services Limited O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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