Minor size optimization

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
The attached diff shaves four bytes from every syscall wrapper (e.g., __sys_write, etc.) In looking carefully at library sizes, I became curious why a simple system call required 20 bytes; turns out a lot of that was alignment padding. Tim Kientzle Index: lib/libc/i386/SYS.h

Re: libc size

2002-11-05 Thread Tim Kientzle
locales you don't use from /usr/share/locale It comes up in the context of 'cat' only because it more than doubles the size of an otherwise very small executable for a single option that is not standard and (probably) not ever used. This is a pretty unusual situation. Tim Kientzle

Re: libc size

2002-11-04 Thread Tim Kientzle
Miguel Mendez wrote: Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Fragility. Could a naive sysadmin (or a dying disk) break /[s]bin? What if the ldconfig hints files were hosed? Is ld-elf.so truly bulletproof? Agreed, and, fortunately, that was taken into account with the introduction

Re: libc size

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Kientzle
resolver bloat from a lot of places without the headaches of dynamic linking. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: libc size

2002-10-31 Thread Tim Kientzle
as well. ... a knob in /etc/mk.conf to get the old behaviour, how about something like that? Knobs are dangerous because you have to test all of the settings. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

RCng Awkwardness

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
it shouldn't be running. I could provide diffs to change this, but won't bother if everyone else thinks the existing system is perfect and unalterable. ;-) Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: RCng Awkwardness

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:50:45AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: I find the standard arguments used by RCng quite awkward. In particular, ... /etc/rc.d/nfsd stop does not actually stop the nfsd process. ... ... I've found this behavior to be quite annoying. I'll see if I

Re: libc size

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
you elaborate? I'm not sure I follow you. How would dynamically linking /bin and /sbin make this work right? Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
M. Warner Losh wrote: Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : ... 'installkernel' is not filling it's contract: it is : not ensuring that the next boot uses the new kernel. Are you sure you need new bootblocks? I've not had issues and am pretty careless about when I do installworld vs

Re: Request: remove ssh1 fallback

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thus spake Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... remove ssh1 fallback from the default ... David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removing SSH 1 ... is going to break compatibility ... Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: POLA: before breaking compatibility, warn people. ... Warning: switching

Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.

2002-10-26 Thread Tim Kientzle
. (This may be the better approach all around; it leaves the downgrade option available for a little bit longer.) Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Who broke sort(1) ?

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Kientzle
One possible solution to the sort problem: * Continue to accept the old syntax for now, but add a warning message, something like: Warning: sort +N is deprecated, use -k instead. * After a year, drop support for the old syntax. After staring at warning messages for a year, few

Another aic7xxx kernel build failure...

2002-09-03 Thread Tim Kientzle
it into the /usr/obj tree. Then 'make kernel' was able to succeed. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

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