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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