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From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To: Denis Troshin <weiv@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: Necessary code or trash?
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> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big.
> 
> For example,
> 
>  rm   - 410 268 bytes,
>  mv   - 407 568 bytes,
>  date - 423 748 bytes.
> 
> Do they really contain only necessary code or
> have more than a half of trash?

Presumable they are statically linked; I believe 5.0 falls before the
switch to a dynamically linked /bin by default.

(See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628)

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