From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 14 16:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FD337B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D4043E77 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 116EEAE23A; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:18 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nate Lawson Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <20021115004017.GE50692@elvis.mu.org> References: <200211142257.gAEMvdxX071776@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nate Lawson [021114 15:42] wrote: > Please see earlier threads on hackers@ about bloat in libc and dynamic > linking of /[s]bin. Tim Kientzle submitted a patch that breaks exit's > dependency on malloc which saves space in the programs that don't > otherwise use malloc. > > I don't think a mini-libc is a good idea because bugfixes would need to be > duplicated or confusion about which one is being used for a program would > make debugging harder. I'd rather have the normal libc on /lib (modulo > some paring down of libc) and things dynamically linked. I'd like to see / dynamically linked with some form of /stand that gets updated in case of emergencies. When/who is going to do this already? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message