[klibc] [RFC] klibc add minimal mntent.h
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jul 23 06:02:13 PDT 2008
maximilian attems wrote:
> belows patch is a first step towards a mntent.h
> we'll need it anyways later for mdadm support.
>
> it allows to compile util-linux-ng mount against klibc.
>
> due to the missing features there is a severe size difference:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1507 0 40 1547 60b /usr/lib/klibc/bin/mount
> 58526 2544 4552 65622 10056 ~/src/util-linux-ng/mount/mount
>
See, this is exactly the reason for having a minimal mount rather than
fullblown util-linux-ng stuff...
When we're talking about making it 30 times bigger, there better be
motivation for *everything*. It doesn't really make sense to have a
minimal klibc and then compile full-fat utilities against it, at least
not without providing alternatives.
But in the case of mount(8), there is a whole bunch of stuff that
definitely are not needed in a klibc-style environment, especially now
when NFS mountd stuff has moved into the kernel.
-hpa
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