From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 14:43:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F7A16A507 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201C243FA3 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan@agora.rdrop.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (202@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h7SLhEmV038724 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan@agora.rdrop.com) Received: (from alan@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.12.7/8.12.9/Submit) id h7SLhEBc038722 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:43:14 -0700 From: Alan Batie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030828214314.GA37687@agora.rdrop.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru> <20030828213345.GD80772@christabel.starbreaker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030828213345.GD80772@christabel.starbreaker.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Necessary code or trash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:43:17 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:33:45PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > > mv - 407 568 bytes, > > date - 423 748 bytes. >=20 > As others explained these commands and others are statically linked so th= at > they do not depend on libraries that live in /usr. Once upon a time, libraries were constructed so that only the modules you were actually using got included, even static ones. Or so I was given to understand... Since libc is 1.2Meg, there still seems to be a little bit of that going on, but sheesh! --=20 Alan Batie ______ alan.batie.org Me alan at batie.org \ / www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A \ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ spamassassin.taint.org NO SPAM! To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919) --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBP053cov4wNua7QglAQFGnQP+K0ABUIZh+SxO3XYIt53zKd/QtzfSLW06 mVNdItyU/9pjo7YPZYHoEnZqonpeNs8MDAkHgVLwoZ0YOcwrqXvsGBRTsvbfsfaJ NLyo8S7gv6Loa6NfUSuVYNrGaPs2P0qu0S66v9yXry4blsfXj3PRjv9cWozXn96q MbS4MHp3JSs= =FctE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--