Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, 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: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906212226070.57661-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990622015554.9177975@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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
>
AHEM!
/tmp is part of an MFS, so how is that disk space?
>
>
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