Necessary code or trash?
Peter Schuller
peter.schuller at infidyne.com
Fri Oct 28 13:15:38 PDT 2005
> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big.
>
> For example,
>
> rm - 410 268 bytes,
> mv - 407 568 bytes,
> date - 423 748 bytes.
>
> Do they really contain only necessary code or
> have more than a half of trash?
Presumable they are statically linked; I believe 5.0 falls before the
switch to a dynamically linked /bin by default.
(See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628)
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