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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:35:07 +1000
From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:21:27PM +1000, CaT wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I have days when I'm frustrated by the size of both glibc and the
> > linux kernel.  stripped both the linux kernel and glibc are comparable
> > in size.  Though I think the 400KB of compressed glibc-2.1.2 is
> > actually smaller than the kernel for the most part.  I have to strip
> > off practically everthing to get a useable bzImage under 400KB.
> > 
> > So any good ideas on how to get the size of linux down?
> 
> Mind if I ask why you need a bzimage under 400kb? Just curious as I've
> never had the need. (And I can see needing it less then 1.4meg - are you
> trying to get a kernel AND a ramdisk on the one floppy?)

plenty of reasons.  i'm building a compactflash-based linux router which
will only have 16mb of flash for the entire system... saving 100kb means
you can fit a few extra userspace tools in there...

-rwxr-xr-x    1 indigoid indigoid    54444 Oct  4 18:30 boa*

j.

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