From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 20 23:00:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA29671 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 23:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29655 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 23:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA29175 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 08:00:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15040 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 May 1996 08:00:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA08699 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605210521.HAA08699@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 07:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Jake Hamby at "May 20, 96 08:05:46 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > Okay, but there are already copies of some of these in /stand! Also, if It's always been our policy that /stand is not needed for system recovery (though perhaps useful). Managing the large blurb binary in /stand (or are it two of them? maybe) in case of partial upgrades (-current etc.) is much more difficult than the separate binaries under /bin. > nothing else, I would like a shared version of /bin/sh and /bin/csh for > faster interactive use, with a static /sbin/sh for boot-up scripts only. > Comments? Shared binaries are slower, not faster. ;) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)