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    SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
    On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:37:00AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > In article <7dls0b$uq2$1@alfie.demon.co.uk>,
    > Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
    > >
    > >ObKernel: the kernel does not fall back to using /bin/sh to execute files
    >
    > Indeed.
    >
    > A zero-length /bin/true does not work reliably, and never has. That's
    > why it's not zero-length any more (not on any modern system I know of,
    > anyway). You need to have the magic "#!/bin/sh" part to make it be
    > reliably recognized as a shell script.
    >
    > However, making it do anything but a simple "exit 0" is horrible.

    Duh. There's no need for a help string/copyright notice in a brief
    shell script.

    > Anybody who really thinks /bin/true should report a version number and a
    > help string (or even a copyright notice) needs to get his head examined.

    Just did. A ok.

    %^)

    Who's to say what's in a binary executable? The overhead of
    implementing a usage message is negligible. In fact, the only excuse
    for *not* putting them into small binaries is...code size?
    nope...complexity? nope...efficiency? nope...laziness? Bingo.

    Think again Mr T.


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