From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jan 13 13:20:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03420 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03412; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA89420; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:19:07 -0800 (PST) To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, picoBSD , Andrzej Bialecki Subject: Re: Trinux (+ a proposal) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:34:53 +0100." Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:19:06 -0800 Message-ID: <89416.916262346@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, since kzip has been fubared by the ELF transition, do we have a > suitable replacement anyway for the unpacking? Or am I thinking in the > wrong unpacking terms? You're thinking in the wrong unpacking terms - we don't want to compress binaries since it makes their contents impossible to share. > OK, dumb remark mayhaps, but what would be the benefit of using different > scripting languages for every nook and cranny in the OS? I mean, we're > using Forth in the new boot{loader|strapper|configuration} and then we are It's not sufficient to the task. Forth is a fine language for small boot programs and such, but I wouldn't want to write complex UIs or anything else in it. And I would have been happy to use TCL in the boot blocks instead if I'd had a couple of hundred K to play with rather than just 20K or so. :) > Jordan, you are referring to the shrink/grow abilities such as VxFS and JFS > them have (JFS can only grow I thought)? No, I'm just referring to a resizable MFS. Don't get carried away. :) > Sorry, RTLD? Real-Time LoaDer? Run-time. UTSL. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message