Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
28 Mar 1999 01:01:50 -0800

In article <linux.kernel.Pine.SOL.3.95.990327195000.24318M-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>>
>> > This is just as much bloat, if you count the extra 1017 bytes this
>> > takes on a typical filesystem. And you've broken portability!
>>
>> 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).

Nope. Zero bytes.

$ sync > /tmp/true
$ chmod +x /tmp/true
$ if /tmp/true; then echo "True is true"; fi
True is true

____
david parsons \bi/ /bin/true size dicksize wars... I've *got* to get
\/ out more.

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