On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:03:41PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:46:22PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > You dont need e2fsprogs
>
> Right, just they seem so coupled...
>
> > - Just certain parts of the libe2fs which itself
> > just uses some very basic libc functions like malloc/free/str* which
> > we all have within arcboot.
>
> I disagree.
>
> libe2fs includes lots of headers:
>
> pureza:~/e2fsprogs-1.32/lib$ find . | grep '\.[ch]$' | xargs grep -h "#include <" | sort | uniq | wc -l
> 77
>
> Also, running nm gives libc calls that invoke syscalls galore.
> For example:
>
> open64, close, ioctl, opendir, fprintf, getmntent, lseek64, time
>
> I got these names from:
>
> pureza:~/e2fsprogs-1.32/lib$ nm libext2fs.a | grep '^ *U' | less
>
> Am I missing something?
Yes - That you dont need all those objects in that archive.
Flo
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