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    SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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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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