Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
... [chown] is still almost 4x the size of chmod:
> $ ls -ld chown > -rwxrwxr-x 1 keramida users - 550624 Sep 3 03:06 chown
$ ls -ld chmod -rwxrwxr-x 1 keramida users - 165884 Sep 3 03:08 chmod
getpwuid() pulls in DNS, NIS, and a bunch of other network routines, which are quite large. chmod doesn't need to look up user or group names. Tim Kientzle P.S. Interesting experiment: for every function in libc, create a statically linked and stripped binary that references that one function and look at the sizes. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
