svn commit: trunk/busybox/libbb

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jun 25 20:06:16 UTC 2006


On Sunday 25 June 2006 1:34 pm, ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
> Guys -
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:20:26PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > or you provide a build option like we do with every other utility
> > [ ] Support all stty speeds
> >
> > turned off -> support only standard/common speeds
> > turned on -> support all speeds
>
> Wild idea time: if "all speeds" is too crufty to put in the
> busybox binary, could it read a mapping file in, say, /etc/stty.speeds ?
> That may or may not be a size savings, the ascii parsing routine
> might be bigger than a small binary table.  But at least it gets
> the platform-dependent stuff out of "our" binary and source code.

I already suggested a way to get the platform-dependent stuff out, while 
giving users the functionality to select nonstandard speeds, without bloating 
the binary.

Rob
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