Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:53:08 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> > This is just as much bloat, if you count the extra 1017 bytes this
> > takes on a typical filesystem. And you've broken portability!
>
> wasted space in the blocks is irrelevant -- you're going to get that
> no matter what.

Ahem... Forgot to count ELF signature and headers, didn't you? Minimal
/bin/true being #!/bin/sh - 10 bytes (you'll need newline at the end).
Al, expecting one more nastygram from Richard now ;-/

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