> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. > > For example, > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > mv - 407 568 bytes, > date - 423 748 bytes. > > Do they really contain only necessary code or > have more than a half of trash?
Presumable they are statically linked; I believe 5.0 falls before the switch to a dynamically linked /bin by default. (See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
