Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:25:01 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:59:01AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat. > > This is why I wrote my own true, false and sync. Sadly, I've only > done x86 and alpha so far: > > 8048074: bb 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,%ebx > 8048079: cd 80 int $0x80
This is just as much bloat, if you count the extra 1017 bytes this takes on a typical filesystem. And you've broken portability!
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