From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 11:46:15 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 DA99C37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from anuket.mj.niksun.com (gwnew.niksun.com [65.115.46.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E197D43E7B for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arao@niksun.com) Received: from there (anuket.mj.niksun.com [10.70.0.5]) by anuket.mj.niksun.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id gACJjEVB078996; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:45:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from arao@niksun.com) X-RAV-AntiVirus: This e-mail has been scanned for viruses. Message-Id: <200211121945.gACJjEVB078996@anuket.mj.niksun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Amit Rao To: justin.wojdacki@analog.com, Rich Morin Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:45:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com> In-Reply-To: <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:34 pm, Justin Wojdacki wrote: > 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. Make that http://www.busybox.net/ Its GPL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message