r239356: does it mean,
that synchronous dhcp and dhcplcinet with disabled devd gone?
Lev Serebryakov
lev at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 21 17:42:30 UTC 2012
Hello, Ian.
You wrote 21 августа 2012 г., 21:36:30:
IL> I think it's funny how people have this knee-jerk reaction against C++
IL> apps. The devd executable is not exactly an example of bloatware: 374k
IL> statically linked (so it already includes this "C++ runtime" that you
IL> think is large). We routinely deploy embedded systems that use apps
IL> written exclusively in C++, on systems that only have 32 or 64mb of ram.
IL> We've been doing so since the days when the biggest compact flash card
IL> you could buy was 64mb.
BTW, typical MIPS SoC-based router has only 16MiB of flash. And,
yes, FreeBSD doesn't fit well in this size now, but why add another
mandatory program, only role of which is to monitor network cable and
re-run the same program every time?
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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