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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:45:04 +1000
From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
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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 06:35:07PM +1000, john slee wrote:
> > 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*

Well, duh. :)

Thanks. :)

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