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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!tau.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: purpose of /stand ??? Date: 14 May 1996 22:35:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4nb1ra$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31724B4D.41C67EA6@merlin.rockwell.cz> <4l46vg$ar@anorak.coverform.lan> <4mam2r$43v@news.zipnet.net> <4mtgtp$il@anorak.coverform.lan> <4n0c00$ooo@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4n8aet$40m@news.zipnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > =It's a ``normal'' crunched binary, with no special (and hard to main- > =tain) crippleties applied. Look into /usr/src/release/boot_crunch.conf > =to see how it's being assembled. > > So, there are no `cons'? Not except the VM waste caused by loading a statically linked binary. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)