[PATCH]passwd: size reduction and clean up

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Mon Jan 9 13:30:37 UTC 2006


On Monday 09 January 2006 02:12, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 18:49, Tito wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I know that we are in feature freeze, but this patch is trivial...
> 
> Remind me about this next week, I'm trying not to break anything unnecessarily 
> right now.
> 
> Still fighting with mount but the bits are starting to go back into the box.  
> Then I get to fight with sed. :)
> 
> I have a _lot_ of old bookmarked busybox emails...
> 
> Rob
HI,
I've made a big progress in size reduction there,
with help and hints from Vladimir N. Oleynik, Bernard Fischer
and Mike Frysinger,
but  i'm not ready yet and this is 1.2 stuff.
BTW, the patch will be very big and needs
good testing and review by the list members
for the sake of security.
So when I'm done with it i will post a patch against
svn and a copy of passwd.c as drop in replacement
to make code auditing easier.
Size reduction at the moment is:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3166       0     160    3326     cfe passwd.o.orig
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2279       8     256    2543     9ef passwd.o
But it needs a little more cleanup.

Ciao,
Tito



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