Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:59:41 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <3FBEA6ED.1020200@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20031120061110.P8759@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031119141059.GA14308@madman.celabo.org> <20031119142535.GA27610@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20031119172533.GB9066@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20031120061110.P8759@gamplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > It obviously uses NSS. How else could it be so bloated? : > > $ ls -l /sbin/init > -r-x------ 1 root wheel 453348 Nov 18 10:30 /sbin/init I believe it's actually DNS, not NSS. Pre-5.0, the resolver ballooned significantly. A lot of the bloat in /bin and /sbin came from the NIS functions which in turn pull in the resolver. Example: /bin/date on 5.1 is also over 450k because of a single call to getservbyname(). Removing that one call shrinks a static /bin/date to a quite reasonable size. (I seem to recall 80k when I did this experiment.) I note that /sbin/init calls getpwnam(); I expect that's where the bloat gets pulled in. Tim Kientzle
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