Subject: Re: bin/9847: Adding test back in to /bin/sh as an internal function
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From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/10/2000 22:46:59
[ On Sunday, April 9, 2000 at 21:23:47 (+0200), Martin Husemann wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/9847: Adding test back in to /bin/sh as an internal function
>
> SMALL should also create a smaller version for the install floppies.
> But if code is shared (as you suggested) with the external version, it
> wouldn't make a difference for the crunched binaries on the floppies.

No, I don't think so.  'test' is already on the i386 boot floppy in the
crunched binary, and 'expr' probably could be without much impact in
size.

It still makes *FAR* more sense to have these programs built in to sh
itself rather than forked and exec'ed via the crunchgen'ed binary!

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