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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 14 Dec 1996 00:38:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <58sstm$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> <329E96C5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <32A17168.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> <57tla3$k68@newshost.lanl.gov> <tporczyk.849540106@shellx> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32557 tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote: > Count me as another vote for Jordan's suggestion. I was quite surprised > to discover that sh was 300KB (over 100KB *larger* than pdksh). Link pdksh static, and it will certainly be more bloated. :-) Btw., much of the bloat of the /bin/sh is due to the bloat that comes from libreadline. If somebody's going to unbloat the latter, and submits us diffs, we certainly don't mind. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)