Re: klibc - another libc?

Roman Zippel
2006-06-07T22:42:21Z

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> To be able to *require* it, which means it can't significantly bloat
> the total size of the kernel image. klibc binaries are *extremely*
> small. Static kinit is only a few tens of kilobytes, a lot of which
> is zlib.

Every project starts small and has the annoying tendency to grow.
That still doesn't answer, why it has to be distributed with the kernel,
just install the thing somewhere under /lib and Kbuild can link to it. The
point is that it contains nothing kernel specific and doesn't has to be
rebult with every new kernel.

bye, Roman