From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 31 20:38:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 F118E16A4DD for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:38:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC6643D45 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:38:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G7eWj-0003YO-Hg for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:38:13 +0200 Received: from cmung1440.cmu.carnet.hr ([193.198.133.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:38:13 +0200 Received: from ivoras by cmung1440.cmu.carnet.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:38:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:37:56 +0200 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <200607271150.k6RBoM9p031745@lurza.secnetix.de> <44C8FB65.9020102@FreeBSD.org> <44CE03D2.2050803@centtech.com> <17614.4005.407223.621637@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE199C.2020500@centtech.com> <17614.8289.134373.387558@bhuda.mired.org> <96b30c400607310847s1d2f845eo212b234d03f51e9a@mail.gmail.com> <17614.10982.499561.139268@bhuda.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cmung1440.cmu.carnet.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <17614.10982.499561.139268@bhuda.mired.org> Sender: news Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:38:19 -0000 Mike Meyer wrote: > snake% uname -a > FreeBSD snake.mired.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > snake% ls -l /bin/cp > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 May 6 23:56 /bin/cp To badly paraphase [1] a quote: "Here, have a $1, buy yourself a GB of storage..." :) Bloat is bad, but saving me time it takes to type redeems some of it. One of the reasons this binary is so small is because it's dynamically linked, so some space was saved when systems started moving away from static binaries. If nitpicking is in order, this file's size is still under default block size (16 KB) and there's plenty of stuff to fit in there to fill it. [1] butcher, more likely