On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Tom Oehser wrote:
> That is space on the floppy, not on the hard drive, which has only a few K.
Ah. The uncompressed shred binary is about 445k, although I'd crunched it
down to 196k with gzexe.
> It looks like it tries to exec a shell and depends on bash and mktemp,
> or something similarly very ugly. It isn't pretty when a statically
> linked executable depends on running commands from a shell...
Actually, on inspection, it's gzexe that requires the shell to uncompress
the binary before executing it, not shred itself. If I can find a way to
squeeze shred into the image without gzexe, it should work fine. I'll work
on that.
BTW, the latest busybox appears to include mktemp. Is there any reason I
shouldn't use the latest busybox (e.g. has it been customized to work with
tomsrtbt)?
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