Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:25:01 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:59:01AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> > Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat.
>
> This is why I wrote my own true, false and sync. Sadly, I've only
> done x86 and alpha so far:
>
> 8048074: bb 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,%ebx
> 8048079: cd 80 int $0x80

This is just as much bloat, if you count the extra 1017 bytes this takes
on a typical filesystem. And you've broken portability!

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