From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:19:47 CEST
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:57:26PM -0400, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
> 4) Runs this:
>
> ( mount /proc ) 2>/dev/null
>
> Are the parenthesis '()' necessary? Parenthesis use a subshell. If they are
> necessary, sometimes brackets '{}' will also work. Brackets do not use a
> subshell.
True. () can be removed. This is the result of earlier cancellation:
(mount /proc ; .... ) 2>/dev/null
>
> 5) Checks for low memory, and if true, runs 'lowmem'.
>
> 6) ...the code after that shouldn't matter -- except as it takes up space.
>
> If it does matter, that space could be saved by splitting /setup/rc/linuxrc
> into two scripts like so:
>
> Old single /setup/rc/linuxrc script:
>
> 1: #!/bin/ash
> 2: ... lotsa code ...
> n: ....
> 115: # End
But I don't think the problem is 1kbytes or two!
Michele
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