Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:05:54 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211151103440.46823-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021115004017.GE50692@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> [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? :) Time Kientzle has offered to build something similar to NetBSD's dynamic /[s]bin and lukem has sent us some info on his work. Let me know if anyone is duplicating effort here. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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