Re: [PATCH][RFC] New 'true' program

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (James Youngman) writes:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:20:58PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> If small size is all you want, I can do a lot better than that:
>> 
>> $ ls -l true
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1  eggert  eggert  10  2004-11-19 22:18  true
>> $ ./true; echo $?
>> 0
>> 
>> (The 10-byte implementation is left to the reader.  :-)
>
> Well, there's this alternative:-
>
> address@hidden:~$ touch true
> address@hidden:~$ chmod +x true
> address@hidden:~$ ./true
> address@hidden:~$ echo $?
> 0
> address@hidden:~$ ls -l true
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 james users 0 Nov 20 10:24 true
> address@hidden:~$

This is not necessarily the best one.

$ time ./true
0.00user 0.00system 0m0.02selapsed 9.60%CPU
$ time /bin/true
0.00user 0.00system 0m0.00selapsed 100.00%CPU

Andreas.

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