Necessary code or trash?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 29), Denis Troshin said:
> I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
> 
> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big.
> 
> For example,
> 
>  rm   - 410 268 bytes,
>  mv   - 407 568 bytes,
>  date - 423 748 bytes.
> 
> Do they really contain only necessary code or
> have more than a half of trash?
> 
> If you think my question is very stupid to answer,
> please give a few links to read about this problem.

They are statically-linked, which means that each binary includes libc.
The next release of 5.x will allow you to build /bin and /sbin
dynamically-linked if you need the space.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com