Making a dynamically-linked root

[Mike Makonnen]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:13:37 -0700
Gordon Tetlow <gordont at gnf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > 
> > Wow!  That's a 25% pessimization.  I'm afraid that other heavily
> > scripted and or fork intensive environments may fair just as poorly
> > (dynamic web content, SMTP servers, etc) as the startup scripts.
> 
> You need to realize that with the advent of rcNG that their are alot
> of additional shell invocations. Also bear in mind that your dynamic
> web content and SMTP servers are already going to be dynamically linked.
> In fact, the thing that will be hardest hit will be the boot scripts.

Gordon,

Here's a patch that goes through the most often used portions of rc.d and uses
absolute pathnames for commands as well as substite the shell builtin
function, test instead of [ ... ].

It shaved 6 seconds off my boot of a statically linked root on an AMD K6-333.

Cheers.
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