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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!pooh!chet From: chet@pooh.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 16 Dec 1996 17:11:28 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <593vs0$ajd@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> <57tla3$k68@newshost.lanl.gov> <tporczyk.849540106@shellx> <58sstm$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.ins.cwru.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32689 In article <58sstm$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote: > >> Count me as another vote for Jordan's suggestion. I was quite surprised >> to discover that sh was 300KB (over 100KB *larger* than pdksh). > >Link pdksh static, and it will certainly be more bloated. :-) > >Btw., much of the bloat of the /bin/sh is due to the bloat that comes >from libreadline. If somebody's going to unbloat the latter, and >submits us diffs, we certainly don't mind. ;-) /bin/sh doesn't use libreadline. It uses libedit, a different beast entirely. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu