Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 29 Mar 1999 13:36:19 +0200 |
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"Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> writes:
|> 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
I think even tcsh has them builtin. Ok, csh users lose, but they do anyway, don't they? :-)
|> and sysad's using /bin/false for a shell in /etc/passwd
What's the problem? Not an exactly time critical application, i'd say.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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