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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	landley@trommello.org, drepper@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:21:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011004182127.B512@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110040004430.26177-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <m14rpg0w4a.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m14rpg0w4a.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have days when I'm frustrated by the size of both glibc and the
> linux kernel.  stripped both the linux kernel and glibc are comparable
> in size.  Though I think the 400KB of compressed glibc-2.1.2 is
> actually smaller than the kernel for the most part.  I have to strip
> off practically everthing to get a useable bzImage under 400KB.
> 
> So any good ideas on how to get the size of linux down?

Mind if I ask why you need a bzimage under 400kb? Just curious as I've
never had the need. (And I can see needing it less then 1.4meg - are you
trying to get a kernel AND a ramdisk on the one floppy?)

-- 
CaT        "As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help
           it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep
           floating through my mind."
                - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03 12:49 Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Jesse Pollard
2001-10-03 18:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-03 23:20   ` Rob Landley
2001-10-04  3:38     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04  4:19       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-04  6:15         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04  8:21           ` CaT [this message]
2001-10-04  8:35             ` john slee
2001-10-04  8:45               ` CaT
2001-10-04 13:11             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04 14:24               ` Kernel size Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-13 20:35                 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-04  8:30           ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Ville Herva
2001-10-04  9:46             ` Erik Andersen
2001-10-04 19:50               ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but no Kai Henningsen
2001-10-04  8:53           ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Andreas Schwab
2001-10-04 13:23             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04  9:12           ` Bloatware (was Re: Security question: "Text file busy"...) VDA
2001-10-04  5:38     ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04  5:44       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-04  5:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04 15:01           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04 15:49             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04 16:02               ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-04 16:20                 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-10-04 17:19                   ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-04 16:11               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-04 19:28                 ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but no Kai Henningsen
2001-10-04 17:25               ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-13 14:53                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 17:13                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-13 18:18                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-13 18:40                     ` Pablo Alcaraz
2001-10-13 19:05                       ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 18:54                     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 19:23                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-13 19:46                         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 21:43                           ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-13 22:27                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-13 22:50                               ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-15 11:24                                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 22:19                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-14  6:49                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-14  8:17                               ` Xavier Bestel
2001-10-14 15:40                               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-14 18:49                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-15 11:43                             ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 22:41                           ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-15 11:35                             ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-15 11:51                               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-15 12:29                                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 22:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-14 12:57                     ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but no Kai Henningsen
2001-10-14 21:43                     ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Mark H. Wood
2001-10-04  5:53         ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-04 20:39         ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but Alan Cox
2001-10-05 16:30           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-05 16:58             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-05 17:35               ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-05 17:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-05 18:51                   ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-06 19:05                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-14  8:02               ` [RFC] "Text file busy" when overwriting libraries Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-14 12:08                 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-14 20:48                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-15  1:44                     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-15  2:06                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-15 10:11                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-15 11:54                           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-15 11:57                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-15 12:08                               ` Alan Cox
2001-10-15 12:11                                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-04  6:50       ` Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? George Greer
2001-10-04 12:54       ` John Levon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-03  2:55 Rob Landley
2001-10-03  7:07 ` Alexander Viro

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