Re: Subversion (was: Re: Upgrading without central packaging)

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> it doesn't seem too far off...  NetBSD's /usr/bin/true is:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> exit 0

Which is of course clever and nicely reusing and all, but /bin/sh
tends to clock in at 0.6 to 1.2 MB these days depending on what kind
of (k|ba?)sh variant (and CPU) we are talking about.  So one megabyte
to ... return zero?  Hate.

> of course which shells these days _don't_ have true as a shell builtin?

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

• Aaron J. Grier 04:56 on 29 Apr 2005
  • Jarkko Hietaniemi 05:54 on 29 Apr 2005

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