Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:36:20 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 Message-ID: <86itc3ae8b.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <200111212100.fALL0ch87092@green.bikeshed.org> References: <bright@mu.org> <20011121125425.J13393@elvis.mu.org> <200111212100.fALL0ch87092@green.bikeshed.org>
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At Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:00:38 -0500,
green wrote:
>
> Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> > Since these are now builtins, wouldn't it sort of make sense to
> > make 'sh' capable of being /bin/test, /bin/printf /whatever/builtin
> > based on argv[0]? :)
> >
> > Then we can just use hardlinks, a bit gross, but it would save
> > quite a bit of space imo.
>
> I hadn't thought of that. That really does seem like quite a good idea!
I doubt that... It would result in test's bloat (55k -> 640k) and
just increase the memory usage, no?
However, I think it would be a good idea for boot floppies. (I'm not
sure if it would work when integrated into a crunched binary using
crunchgen)
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