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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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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