Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:08:25 -0500

In message <Pine.SOL.3.95.990327195000.24318M-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexan
der Viro writes:
+-----
| > wasted space in the blocks is irrelevant -- you're going to get that
| > no matter what.
|
| Ahem... Forgot to count ELF signature and headers, didn't you? Minimal
| /bin/true being #!/bin/sh - 10 bytes (you'll need newline at the end).
| Al, expecting one more nastygram from Richard now ;-/
+--->8

No, but one from me: the minimal /bin/true is 0 bytes. :-) And nicely
disproves the "wasted space in the blocks" comment: how many blocks does an
0-byte file take?

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