Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:30:59 +0200 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 11:48:35AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com> writes: > > |> Hi Albert. > |> > |> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > |> > |> >>> Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat. > |> > |> >> Enclosed are both /bin/false and /bin/true from the system I'm > |> >> running on (RedHat 5.0 with kernel 2.2.4 - not my system though), > |> >> and neither appears to be much in the way of bloat to me... > |> > |> > Odd... I'm running Red Hat 5.0 too. Here is GNU false: > |> > |> Since I wrote that, I've been home and checked my systems, which run a > |> variety of RedHat 4.1, 5.1 and 5.2 installs, and all are heavily > |> bloated. > > true and false are bash builtins, so who cares?
(t)csh users and sysad's using /bin/false for a shell in /etc/passwd
Werner
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