Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:57:42 -0700 | From | Oscar Levi <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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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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