[SunRescue] SS5 upgrade

[Paul Sladen]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dave Reader wrote:

> As an interesting (or maybe not) deviation from the topic, a silly thread
> came up on another list i take today.. about the size of /bin/true (and
> how it really is bloated for something that does nothing). It was noted
> that SunOS and Solaris /bin/true is a shell script which just exits, and
> hence fires up a shell to do it. My linux boxen use a binary, so I looked
> at how it varies by platform...

The Page to check out here is:

  http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

How to build a 45 byte ELF binary executable /bin/true.

Have Fun,
Paul

(hint; what happens if you put the executable code *inside* the ELF header  ;-)

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