John P. Looney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:21:24PM +0000, Niall Brady mentioned:
>>>On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:22:44 GMT, Niall O Broin said:
>>>>>However, I do wonder where the information is stored - is it using up
>>>non-swappable kernel memory ? Mind you, the relevant config file on my box
>>>gzipped is 10K - I suppose with current memory prices that's not a big
>>>burden.
>>>>>*gasp*
>>shock horror
>>10k
>>>>I think we should all boycott this clearly ridiculous idea. I could use
>>that extra 10k to do something fancy like
>>>>http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html>>>> Well, why does someone do GNU a favour, and patch /bin/true and
> /bin/false to be like that ?
>> bartender [0] ls -il `which false` `which true`
> 127728 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.2k Jul 23 2001 /bin/false
> 127734 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.2k Jul 23 2001 /bin/true
>> Two separate programs. And all they *do* is a return code...
Well in fairness they're only 4.4K on my system, but I really
hate the way gnu are splitting up all tools into seperate binaries
now, rather than check argv[0]. 2 releated ILUG threads were:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2001-February/027699.htmlhttp://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2000-December/026040.html
Padraig.
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