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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 
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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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