jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (05/03/84)
We run 2.8 on PDP-11/70s. In looking around our system I noticed that /etc/getty has the sticky bit set but is neither pure executable or split I&D. As I understand the function of the sticky bit, setting it on an unshared text doesn't do any good. I recompiled getty with -n option and am using it now. This should save memory, swap space, and load time, right? I notice that /etc/init is also unshared text. As it is frequently the program with the greatest number of processes shouldn't it be pure executable? I can understand why many of these programs (csh and ls) are distributed without split I&D (-i) as some PDP-11s don't support it. But why are common processes like init and getty not even made pure executable? Does any one know of any reason why I shouldn't make init pure executable? Jerry Aguirre {hplabs|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry