From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jun 29 09:34:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16292 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16229 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00514; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806291632.JAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Marc Nicholas cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Dinesh Nair , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd on 386 (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:12:02 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Anyway, I must admit it surprises me a bit :-) I thought it would take > > significant amount of hacking to achieve this, and it seems we're that > > close -><-. I put much hope in writing custom init(8), and getting rid of > > the shell - instead writing specialized UI. This could fly in 4MB... > > I'd probably be willing to donate some resources to hacking-out a > specialized init as my application really doesn't need a shell either. You might want to look at what the GnatBox folks have done (www.gnatbox.com), as this is probably a long way towards what you're looking at. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message