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Re: Updates to ash and busybox



On Tue Oct 19, 1999 at 02:05:49AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >> /bin/true and /bin/false can be smaller, and be shell scripts....
> >
> >Hmm.  Smaller than:
> >
> >    extern int
>      [...]

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 03:11:26AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Yes.  See the rather elaborate discussions at
> <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/39/39190.html>.

Near as I can tell, 39190 doesn't even address this issue.

However, we're talking about the difference between a block on disk and
a directory entry vs. linkage and table storage with whatever overhead
is required for a trivial subroutine.

This comes down to implementation specific issues...

-- 
Raul


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