Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?

From: CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 03:45:04 EST

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:35:07PM +1000, john slee wrote:
> > Mind if I ask why you need a bzimage under 400kb? Just curious as I've
> > never had the need. (And I can see needing it less then 1.4meg - are you
> > trying to get a kernel AND a ramdisk on the one floppy?)
>
> plenty of reasons. i'm building a compactflash-based linux router which
> will only have 16mb of flash for the entire system... saving 100kb means
> you can fit a few extra userspace tools in there...
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 indigoid indigoid 54444 Oct 4 18:30 boa*

Well, duh. :)

Thanks. :) 

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