> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:24:39AM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > 
> > i still cant understand why such simple program like df for example needs
> > OVER 100kB of library code. good written accounting software fits in few
> > hundreds kB!
> 
> Bad example.  B-)
> 
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  operator  70884 Jan 22 19:35 /bin/df

on what arch? 
 
> The problem with things like ls(1) is more complex.  Once you start
> dealing with user names, you have to pull in all of DB, which is huge,
> plus the rest of nsswitch stuff, which BTW includes YP and RPC, and the
> message catalog system, and...
> 
> This stuff should be in separate, dynamically loaded, libraries.  You
> use getpwman(3), it loads libnsswitch_db.so, which loads libdb.so, and
> goes from there.  Or loads libnsswitch_yp.so, and that pulls in
> librpc.so.  None of this crap should be in libc in the first place.
> 
> It's insane.
no. dividing libraries is inefficient with shared libs. it takes more
memory etc...

one big libc for all would be better ...