[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Youngman) writes: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:20:58PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > >> If small size is all you want, I can do a lot better than that: >> >> $ ls -l true >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 eggert eggert 10 2004-11-19 22:18 true >> $ ./true; echo $? >> 0 >> >> (The 10-byte implementation is left to the reader. :-) > > Well, there's this alternative:- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch true > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod +x true > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./true > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $? > 0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l true > -rwxr-xr-x 1 james users 0 Nov 20 10:24 true > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
This is not necessarily the best one. $ time ./true 0.00user 0.00system 0m0.02selapsed 9.60%CPU $ time /bin/true 0.00user 0.00system 0m0.00selapsed 100.00%CPU Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
