From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 11:35: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA1D37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwd2mime2.analog.com (nwd2mime2.analog.com [137.71.25.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9ED43E3B for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justin.wojdacki@analog.com) Received: from nwd2gtw1 (unverified) by nwd2mime2.analog.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with SMTP id ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:34:49 -0500 Received: from nwd2mhb2 ([137.71.6.12]) by nwd2gtw1; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:34:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from golf.cpgdesign.analog.com ([137.71.139.100]) by nwd2mhb2.analog.com with ESMTP (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.7.1) id OAA02226; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:34:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from ws4.cpgdesign.analog.com (ws4 [137.71.139.26]) by golf.cpgdesign.analog.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA12920; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from analog.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ws4.cpgdesign.analog.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA16289; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:34:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:34:46 -0800 From: Justin Wojdacki Reply-To: justin.wojdacki@analog.com Organization: Analog Devices, Communications Processors Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rich Morin wrote: > > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a > single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had > functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the > overhead a great deal. > > A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs > together into a single binary, but give the binary links for each > of the original names (and have the program respond according to > the name used, ala vi/ex). > > My general reaction, however, is that this issue (shrinking sbin) > is not worth trashing the software engineering of piles of commands. > > -r > -- > email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. > http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series > http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox. http://busybox.lineo.org Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software though. -- ------------------------------------------------- Justin Wojdacki justin.wojdacki@analog.com (408) 350-5032 Communications Processors Group -- Analog Devices To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message