On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:31:34 -0400 James Carlson wrote: > Is it possible to discuss the utility of this library for things other > than a new /usr/bin/wc implementation, or is the eventual use of it by > diverse things (rather than a mere handful) just a fundamental > assumption?
one view of -lcmd is that of a pseudo-directory that provides utilities with fast startup relative to their physical-directory a.out counterparts similarly, -lcmd provides utility implementations that will be the same (modulo native system feature diffs) on all systems and/or will be present when ksh93 is present e.g., we were able to do a very small footprint basic (man) section 1 installation on a unix handheld based on dynamic ksh + dynamic -lcmd + stub /bin/xxx all hard-linked to one a.out that called libcmd b_xxx() it also had the advantage that once ksh+dlls' were running and mapped in, so were many of the /bin utilities -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
