Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:32:35 +1200


On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 07:27:02PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> The obvious fix is to roll a bunch of these tiny programs into one
> and differentiate using argv[0]. Fewer pages in core, fewer blocks
> on disk, and better script performance. The natural extension of
> this idea is to link all of /bin into one monolithic demand-loaded
> executable. Woohoo. Tomsrtbt is most of the way there.

Indeed... thats a very clean idea. I like that one.

> But we should all be ashamed for extending such a tangent on the
> list anyway..

I'm surprised someone hasn't argues to hack the kernel to provide
certain bultins (shudder)...

-cw

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