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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 23 Dec 1996 13:06:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <59m03s$423@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> <329E96C5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <32A17168.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> <57tla3$k68@newshost.lanl.gov> <tporczyk.849540106@shellx> <58sstm$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> <tporczyk.850652227@shellx> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33006 tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote: > Would getting rid of those features be a reasonable solution? "toor" > account provides that right now. I've always believed that specialized > tools are best. Let's keep /bin/sh lean and mean. I think you can already compile it with -DNO_HISTORY. Most people find the history a neat thing however, and certainly value it more than a binary that's 100 KB smaller. Since we are demand-paging, as long as you don't use it, you won't load the bloat into your memory anyway. You gotta turn on the history editor explicitly, so this already gives you control about whether you're loading the bloat or not. -- 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. ;-)