On 03/24/2012 03:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The attached cpio-parsing code compiles to 458 bytes on x86-64 and 476
> bytes on i386, and that is without any library dependencies at all.
> Again, it will completely stop at the first compressed data item, so any
> such kernel objects absolutely will have to be first.  In good Linux
> tradition, it is also completely untested.
> 
> However, given that very reasonable size I would think that this is a
> reasonable approach.  Anyone who has a better suggestion for the
> namespace than "kernel/"?
> 

Slightly improved version with actually working memcmp()...

	-hpa