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From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:35:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011004183507.A29887@higherplane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110040004430.26177-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <m14rpg0w4a.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20011004182127.B512@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011004182127.B512@zip.com.au>

[ cc list trimmed ]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:21:27PM +1000, CaT wrote:
> 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?)

plenty of reasons.  i'm building a compactflash-based linux router which
will only have 16mb of flash for the entire system... saving 100kb means
you can fit a few extra userspace tools in there...

-rwxr-xr-x    1 indigoid indigoid    54444 Oct  4 18:30 boa*

j.

-- 
R N G G   "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit 
 I G G G   here without opposable thumbs." -- gary larson

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04  8:34 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
2001-10-04  8:35             ` john slee [this message]
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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