From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 21 18:56:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7B614DC9; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9177975; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , hoek@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_gzip.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:17:34 +0930." Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990622015554.9177975@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message