Re: shrunken userland

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:32 AM, David Young wrote:

> I have made a little progress on a more embeddable NetBSD userland.
>
> Using ldns, <http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/>, I have replaced ISC  
> BIND's
> dig(1) and host(1) utilities.  I replaced dig with drill, a program
> that is distributed with ldns.  I created a simplified host(1) command
> by modifying the ldns-mx.c example in ldns.  The storage savings are
> substantial:

Maybe you should import ldns into src/dist and put some reachover  
makefiles in (disabled, for now).

> # ls -l `which host`
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1257396 Sep  7 21:23 /usr/bin/host
> # ls -l `which dig`
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1269464 Sep  7 21:23 /usr/bin/dig
>
> # ls -l `which host`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12084 Sep 21 15:57 /usr/bin/host
> # ls -l `which drill`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  42120 Sep 21 00:37 /usr/bin/drill
> # ls -l /usr/lib/libldns.so.1.2
> -r--r--r--  1 root      wheel  482979 Sep 21 00:37 /usr/lib/ 
> libldns.so.1.2
>
> You can browse the sources for my host(1) replacement here,
> <http://svn.cuwireless.net/svn/cuw/trunk/src/host/>.  It does not
> work alike to ISC's host(1), but it works for my purposes.
>
> I still seek a small replacement for the ISC DHCP client and server.
> udhcp looks promising, but there is not a NetBSD port, yet, and it  
> is GPL.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> David Young             OJC Technologies
> dyoung%ojctech.com@localhost      Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 ext 24

-- thorpej