From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 11:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5C4C37B798 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 11392 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2000 18:37:07 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (HELO park.jhs.no?domain) (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 27 Jul 2000 18:37:07 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by park.jhs.no_domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02788 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:47:03 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <200007271247.MAA02788@park.jhs.no_domain> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:30:57 +1000." <20000727083057.A73044@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:47:03 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrew Reilly" wrote: > Well, even if there are/were folk who want tiny disk footprints, > and crunching everything isn't going to do the whole job, wouldn't > a compressed filesystem be a better way to approach this? At least > that way you'd still be able to page from the executable(s), and > all of the on-disk data would bennefit too. I would have used a compressing file system if it had existed, just as today I'd use an encrypting file system on my new laptop, but such file system don't exist on FreeBSD unfortunately. Nice ideas to add to a web page of project ideas for students & other contributors. When I was a student, friends were keen to find project ideas more inspiring than those on lists drawn up by the lecturers. Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Munich Unix Consultant. Free BSD Unix with 3200 packages & sources. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message