Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman | Date | 28 Mar 1999 01:01:50 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.SOL.3.95.990327195000.24318M-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > > >On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: >> >> > This is just as much bloat, if you count the extra 1017 bytes this >> > takes on a typical filesystem. And you've broken portability! >> >> wasted space in the blocks is irrelevant -- you're going to get that >> no matter what. > >Ahem... Forgot to count ELF signature and headers, didn't you? Minimal >/bin/true being #!/bin/sh - 10 bytes (you'll need newline at the end).
Nope. Zero bytes.
$ sync > /tmp/true $ chmod +x /tmp/true $ if /tmp/true; then echo "True is true"; fi True is true
____ david parsons \bi/ /bin/true size dicksize wars... I've *got* to get \/ out more.
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