From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 21 19:27:44 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2231114CA1; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA57737; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:27:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Peter Wemm Cc: Kris Kennaway , Jean-Marc Zucconi , hoek@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_gzip.c In-Reply-To: <19990622015554.9177975@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > > > > > Use gzexe. I recently fixed some filename guessing weaknesses in the scr > ipt, > > > > so it should be quite safe to use. > > > > > > gzexe is not an option when you boot from a floppy and when all must > > > fit in 1.44MB :-) > > > > Why not? gzexe is a once-off compression step which encapsulates the > > executable into a shell script, and has no other space overheads other than > > decompression space on /tmp at run-time. > > Yes, but you don't *have* /tmp at that time for the boot floppies.. You > have memory etc but not disk space. > > > Kris > > Cheers, > -Peter > AHEM! /tmp is part of an MFS, so how is that disk space? > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message