[klibc] ash replaced

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Thu Sep 16 00:52:55 PDT 2004


 On Wed, Sep 15, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I have pushed a new klibc which uses a modern NetBSD-derived ash.  The 
> initial port was done by Olaf, and I've mostly applied the chainsaw to 
> it until it was less than 50% larger than the old one.

Lets blame Hannes for the inital work :)

> It's still substantially larger, but should also eliminate need for some 
> external binaries like expr and test, which are otherwise ubiquitous for 
> any sensible shell scripts, and perhaps most importantly, it works 
> correctly on 64-bit platforms.

Thanks alot!

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