Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1 | Date | Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:26:55 +0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>Don't forget that when run as an initrd, it would have to be staticly >linked against libc and friends (making it at weigh in at about 300k),
If you restrict your usage of libc calls to a minimum you can make it much smaller. You can write a minimal, fairly portable, tftp client using not much more than socket(), connect(), read(), write() and brk(). The libc implementation for each of those routines is just a handful of bytes.
p.
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