On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:11:00PM +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote:
>
>
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > On 06/05/2009 11:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> Seewer Philippe ([email protected]) said:
> >>> cat and grep just bloat the initrd, this patch removes dependencies
> >>> on them.
> >>
> >> Are we really at a place where we're that worried about 100k? I'd
> >> rather not have to implement all of coreutils in shell where needed.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not too happy about this, additionally because it made the code less
> > readable. But he already pushed it to git.
>
> Ah well... I guess I'll label it an rfc patch next time I post something
> like that.
>
> When I was going through the code this morning I just noticed that cat
> was used only 4 times and grep just once. Personally I prefer to keep
> the number of pulled in utilities as small as possible. Hence the
> replacement. If you don't like the way I did it, please suggest
> something else.
Just because the scripts don't use it, doesn't mean it doesn't have
value in the initramfs. Being dropped to a rescue shell and not
being able to cat files for diagnostics is sort of annoying.
Dave
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