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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
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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


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