Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:30:32 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, picoBSD <small@FreeBSD.ORG>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trinux (+ a proposal) Message-ID: <XFMail.990114073032.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <89416.916262346@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On 13-Jan-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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 noted, so you mean unpacking as in preparing the stuff for actual use, e.g. placement/creation of dirs and files. >> 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. :) Well, does the full TCL 8.1 (which I am guessing you are wanting to use) fit into the space you have or are we going to have to play Quake-axeman on the TCL distribution? >> 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. :) Well, that's basically the same as what VxFS and JFS do, they can grow whenever ye need more space and shrink (VxFS) when space gets freed. >> Sorry, RTLD? Real-Time LoaDer? > > Run-time. UTSL. :) I know, I know, but given the fact that I am currently persuing/reading about every piece of the whole OS (including ports et al) forgive me for not remembering everything at this stage of source newbie =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai> BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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