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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:03 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227753 - in head: contrib/gdtoa include lib/libc/gdtoa lib/libc/gen lib/libc/locale lib/libc/regex lib/libc/stdio lib/libc/stdlib lib/libc/stdtime lib/libc/string
Message-ID:  <20120130222803.GA32068@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20120130212631.GA45106@zim.MIT.EDU>
References:  <201111201445.pAKEjgNR096676@svn.freebsd.org> <20120118190714.GA13375@zim.MIT.EDU> <318F6CAA-D37E-49E9-A147-E21DE803EFB7@FreeBSD.org> <20120130212631.GA45106@zim.MIT.EDU>

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:26:31PM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD has a set of statically linked binaries in /rescue for
> situations where /lib gets screwed up.  Space is an issue there
> because the root partition is historically sized quite small.

/rescue is a single binary created with crunchgen and
137 hard links.  There's also one 9K script.

BTW, I known of someone besides bde who creates statically
linked binaries; particularly when he's debugging and profiling
the his code. :-)
 
-- 
Steve



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