Re: High UID support for Linux

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
27 Nov 1998 09:17:38 +0100

o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) writes:
>
> Get back to me when an a.out glibc that can fit on an install
> floppy is written [2].
>
Just use a compressed RAM disk...

> [2: libc 4.8.0 is 412 blocks long; if glibc is clocking in at
> that size range, please let me know.]

What's your block size??

glibc 2.1 currently is 934 kBytes. That obviously includes a whole lot of
cruft no sane install disk is ever going to need, but since the tools exist
for using it regardless, nobody made the effort to strip it down. Yet.

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