console-tools size optimization

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 09:42, Tito wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a series of patches to reduce the size of some console-tools
> applets:

chvt yay.

deallocvt: you're sure -1 is the only error code ever returned?

setconsole: yay, and is this already using one instance of those strings?  
(When we introduce a string table to ease translation, should non-translated 
strings be merged on general principles, or what?)

One advantage of a string table is that by putting lots of strings together, 
it's easier to see similar ones that can be re-used in different areas...

openvt: yay.

Applied (r11390), but I'd appreciate an answer to the deallocvt question.  
(And no, I don't know why it saves size either.  I suspect on other platforms 
it might not, and consider it by far the weakest patch of the lot...)

Rob