At 21:24 -0700 6/30/99, Andrew Brown wrote:
>>>Also, /sbin/init (I keep wanting to type /etc/init -- don'tcha just love
>>>legacy systems?) explicitly calls
>>>	execv(_PATH_BSHELL, ("sh", "/etc/rc", autoboot? "autoboot": 0, 0));
>>
>>Actually, this is an anachronism given that execve(2) deals with the #!
>>magic number. I'd argue that init should simply execv("/etc/rc") without
>>reference to "sh" - that way, if someone ever wants to change the script to
>>something else, they can.
>
>ooooooh!  you're pure evil, aren't you?  ;-)
>
>ps - i link perl statically and stick in /sbin.

Well, if you *really* wanted to save disk space, there's no reason why you
couldn't reimplement most of /bin as perl scripts...

	Erik <fair@clock.org>