Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 11:13:36 
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:06:10PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:

 > I assume the saving is so that a NetBSD root file system can better fit 
 > onto things like flash?  Should this and other such tricks (triming 
 > libc, ...) be left those people?

Actually, one of the biggest motivations is so that dlopen() is available
to these programs (think "locale").

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>