Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Riley Williams (rhw@BigFoot.Com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:49:52 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Brandon.

>> 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).

> 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?

Just out of curiosity, what's the minimum /bin/false ???

Best wishes from Riley.

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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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