Update ash-port to NetBSD-1.6.1

Update ash-port to NetBSD-1.6.1

[Hannes Reinecke]

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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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SuSE Linux AG				S390 & zSeries
Maxfeldstraße 5				+49 911 74053 688
90409 Nürnberg				http://www.suse.de

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Re: [klibc] Update ash-port to NetBSD-1.6.1

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> 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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Re: [klibc] Update ash-port to NetBSD-1.6.1

[Hannes Reinecke]

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> 
>> 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.

> 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
-- 
Dr. Hannes Reinecke			hare@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG				S390 & zSeries
Maxfeldstraße 5				+49 911 74053 688
90409 Nürnberg				http://www.suse.de

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