Update ash-port to NetBSD-1.6.1
Hi all,
this patch updates the ash-port of klibc to that one found in NetBSD-1.6.1 instead of the horribly old one currently used. It's a bit longish (appearently there has been some work done between 1993 and today), but now it's even useable on 64-bit systems :-). Plus I've added some nice-to-have builtins, e.g. printf.
Cheers,
Hannes
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Quoted 8 lines · Hannes Reinecke
Hi all,
this patch updates the ash-port of klibc to that one found in NetBSD-1.6.1 instead of the horribly old one currently used. It's a bit longish (appearently there has been some work done between 1993 and today), but now it's even useable on 64-bit systems :-). Plus I've added some nice-to-have builtins, e.g. printf.
I have received at least one contribution for this, but it nearly doubles the size of what is already the largest binary, by far, in the klibc distribution, almost three times the size of the library itself.
I think it needs to be cut down in size to something closer to the original.
-hpa
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Quoted 10 lines · H. Peter Anvin
Quoted 5 lines · Hannes Reinecke
Hi all,
this patch updates the ash-port of klibc to that one found in NetBSD-1.6.1 instead of the horribly old one currently used. It's a bit longish (appearently there has been some work done between 1993 and today), but now it's even useable on 64-bit systems :-). Plus I've added some nice-to-have builtins, e.g. printf.
I have received at least one contribution for this, but it nearly doubles the size of what is already the largest binary, by far, in the klibc distribution, almost three times the size of the library itself.
Yep, I know ('twas from Olaf Hering, right ?). Nevertheless, both should be close if not identical.
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I think it needs to be cut down in size to something closer to the original.
Ok, I've stripped the new ash of all new features, so that now the old and the new version are identical in respect to the supported commands. Only two minor things:
- 'type' is a new command (that was too ingrained within the shell itself so it couldn't readily stripped out)
- 'lc' is gone (I've no idea what it did in the first place, so it should not be a big deal)
Doesn't help much with the patch, though; uncompressed it's still some 600k. Nevertheless this update should be done as the old ash wasn't even 64-bit clean.
And it would cut down our patch-list for klibc by quite a bit :-)
Cheers,
Hannes
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Dr. Hannes Reinecke [email protected] SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de