Fwd: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 3 12:30:12 UTC 2006


On Monday 03 July 2006 13:30, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:52:24AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >Just FYI: kernel folks are talking about small userspace
> >which will start before root fs is mounted, and they are
> >mentioning busybox:
> 
> The sum of on-disk bytes for their versions are 33848 Bytes.
> Busybox with the belowmentioned featureset (against glibc, so it's
> bigger than it needs to be and would be if using klibc) looks
> approximately like:
> 
> $ size busybox
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   21345     644    8336   30325    7675 busybox
> $ ls -l busybox
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bernhard users 23488 Jul  3 13:25 busybox
> 
> Currently defined functions:
>         busybox, cat, chroot, dd, false, halt, insmod, ln, mkdir, mkfifo,
>         mknod, mount, pivot_root, poweroff, ps, reboot, rm, sleep, switch_root,
>         true, umount, uname

Well, I'm afraid we heed shell also, and IIRC our shells
are not in particularly good shape.

BTW, I do not see my own posts to the list.
I just checked on busybox.net: sending of my own mails
back to me is not disabled there...
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vda



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