Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:45:16 -0500 From: Amit Rao <arao@niksun.com> To: justin.wojdacki@analog.com, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal Message-ID: <200211121945.gACJjEVB078996@anuket.mj.niksun.com> In-Reply-To: <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com> References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <p05200f03b9f706009d91@[192.168.254.205]> <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com>
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:34 pm, Justin Wojdacki wrote: > Rich Morin wrote: > > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a > > single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had > > functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the > > overhead a great deal. > > > > A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs > > together into a single binary, but give the binary links for each > > of the original names (and have the program respond according to > > the name used, ala vi/ex). > > > > My general reaction, however, is that this issue (shrinking sbin) > > is not worth trashing the software engineering of piles of commands. > > > > -r > > -- > > email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. > > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. > > http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series > > http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox. > > http://busybox.lineo.org > > Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software > though. Make that http://www.busybox.net/ Its GPL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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