Quoting Felipe W Damasio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:28:34 -0200
> Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > So can you guys please consider this cleanup then? > > > >It would break international support. I can't see how, as the binary ignores parameters like --help, even though it is present in the man page. > > > >May one ask why you are so concerned about saving a few bytes? > > > > > > I think it is an outrage that a simple task like returning a code > indicating success has to take more than a few bytes. More than just a few bytes: $ /usr/bin/time true 0.01user 0.00system 0:00.02elapsed 41%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (134major+35minor)pagefaults 0swaps I think that this is valid for the ``false'' program too: $ /usr/bin/time false Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.00user 0.02system 0:00.02elapsed 90%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (134major+35minor)pagefaults 0swaps It's not a matter of just a few bytes of disk space, but a somewhat considerable amount of system resources to ``do nothing, (in)successfully''. Best regards. -- Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez GNU/Linux #140696 [http://counter.li.org] Slackware Linux + FreeBSD Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
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