> But you'd have to agree that user-space utilities like cat and wc > are essentially trivial, in a way that a kernel isn't trivial.
Well, it depends if your considering them all together: basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir sha1sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes Perhaps not. Don't forget a compiler, debugger, editor, a C library, and a whole slew of other things. A compiler is far harder to write than a kernel by the way. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss