Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:38:44 -0500 (EST)


Riley Williams enscribed thusly:
> 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 ???

Not counting the length of the name in the symlink: 0

ln -s /dev/null /bin/false.

Results in "permission denied" error which is "not true" and
therefore false.

> Best wishes from Riley.

> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
> | 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. |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> * ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
> * http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html

Mike

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