Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:15:34 +0200 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: Denis Troshin <weiv@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Necessary code or trash? Message-ID: <20051028201533.GA9896@starfury.scode.org> In-Reply-To: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru> References: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru>
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> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. > > For example, > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > mv - 407 568 bytes, > date - 423 748 bytes. > > Do they really contain only necessary code or > have more than a half of trash? Presumable they are statically linked; I believe 5.0 falls before the switch to a dynamically linked /bin by default. (See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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