Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@freebsd.org>, hoek@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_gzip.c Message-ID: <19990622015554.9177975@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:17:34 %2B0930." <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906221115550.2993-100000@bragg>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
>
> > > Use gzexe. I recently fixed some filename guessing weaknesses in the scr
ipt,
> > > so it should be quite safe to use.
> >
> > gzexe is not an option when you boot from a floppy and when all must
> > fit in 1.44MB :-)
>
> Why not? gzexe is a once-off compression step which encapsulates the
> executable into a shell script, and has no other space overheads other than
> decompression space on /tmp at run-time.
Yes, but you don't *have* /tmp at that time for the boot floppies.. You
have memory etc but not disk space.
> Kris
Cheers,
-Peter
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