Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

From: Philip Blundell (pb@labs.futuretv.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 04:33:12 EST


>Well, I'm pretty sure dhcpd uses stdio and malloc, so it won't save nearly
>as much space unless you replace those libraries with something of the
>not-glibc variety.

Why do you want dhcpd itself on an initrd? Surely you need only a simple DHCP
client.

>It gets really inefficient really fast to have _lots_ of static binaries on
>one disk. My ideal solution would be something like this:

If they're small enough it probably doesn't matter. Remember that for shared
libraries you also need a dynamic linker.

p.

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