Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:23:11 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981026180148.583A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <17264.909443748@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >I hate to be a wet blanket, but has anyone compared sizes? /bin/sh is >also a necessary component of the boot floppy and if pdksh bloats us >past 1.44MB and the space can't be reasonably reclaimed elsewhere (and >good luck there since all the obvious avenues of doing so have long >since been tried and/or implemented), that's a show-stopper. > >- Jordan -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 307200 Oct 4 15:22 /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 167936 Mar 22 1998 /usr/local/bin/ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.13 97/10/27 FreeBSD acp.qiv.com 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 17 13:26:42 \ CDT 1998 root@acp.qiv.com:/usr2/src/sys/compile/ACP i386 On a 3.0-BETA system from 10/17, sh = 321104 and ksh = 297440. Not as great a difference, but still a gain. >From a size perspective, pdksh may be a benefit. I normally develop scripts for AIX on my FreeBSD box, and so far, have had more trouble between 3.2.5/4.2.1 versions of AIX than between FBSD and AIX. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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