🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug22.205249.27205@atlantis.uucp> bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry) writes:
>	"If you want to save some space, try stripping sdmach [hah hah hah]"
>	(paraphrased)
>
>Well, I thought he was joking.  And yet, amazingly enough...
>
>atlantis> ls -l /sdmach
>-r-xr--r--  2 root      708219 Aug 14 19:11 /sdmach*
>atlantis> ls -l /tmp/sdmach 
>-rwxr--r--  1 bugs      624388 Aug 22 14:32 /tmp/sdmach*
>
>*** YEESH! ALERT ***
>How can this be?  And although I feel that the stripped version might work with
>no problems, _I_ ain't gonna be the one to try it out.  It might work in the
>beginning, but I'd hate to have to deal with sporatic mach-kernel errors.

Stripping /sdmach won't cause kernel errors per se, just errors when
something tries to link with it, such as kernel loaded servers which use
the relocation info (which strip removes) to link into the kernel.

If you never intend on using, Midi, NeXTDimension, SLIP, PPP,
MallocDebug (either this or AppInspector, I forget which one), the Tablet
driver, ISDN, TTYDSP, and others I haven't mentioned and others
which will come along, then it's probably fine to do :)

Never hurts to try this stuff, worst that will happen is you'll learn
something,
-- 
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