Re: Updates to ash and busybox
Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
> On Tue Oct 19, 1999 at 02:05:49AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Sat Sep 25, 1999 at 01:18:34AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > > Well, I dunno. I'll look thru the boot-floppies bug reports and see
> > > > what is to be seen.
> >
> > Argh... sorry I didn't do this.
>
> Ok, if you get a chance I'd like to know of anything you come across.
>
> > > So, any more busybox feature requests?
> >
> > /bin/true and /bin/false can be smaller, and be shell scripts....
>
> Hmm. Smaller than:
>
> extern int
> true_main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
> return( TRUE);
> }
>
> extern int
> false_main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
> return( FALSE);
> }
>
> ??? (I already trashed the useless uage info). :-) I'm not sure how to
> make them smaller w/o writing them in asm and losing portability...
Kick argc and argv, might be a few instructions less.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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