Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:49:04 -0800 | From | "Brian J. Swetland" <> | Subject | /bin/true (Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman) |
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[david parsons <o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s>] > > > >ObKernel: the kernel does not fall back to using /bin/sh to execute files > > Well, that sucks. That means that I have to resort to wasting > FIFTY-SIX WHOLE BYTES to have /bin/true work properly in all > situations (yeah, I could probably make it smaller, but to do > that would mean that I'd need to do it in assembly rather than > C.)
Wouldn't it be more worthwhile to just make it a shell builtin (it was pointed out to me that bash does this)? I mean is a handful of bytes of executable or a disk block more or less significant compared to the cost of the fork'n'exec here? Doesn't seem likely.
Brian
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