rcpt@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) (10/18/90)
There are a lot of ULTRIX commands that are not stripped. On our Ultrix 3.1 DECstations we have for example: /usr/bin/dxterm: mipsel demand paged setuid executable not stripped - version 1. 31 -rwsr-xr-x 5 root 5080168 Nov 16 1989 /usr/bin/dxterm If I strip this command I get a size of: -rwxr-xr-x 1 rcpt 2727936 Oct 18 12:04 /rc6u1/rcpt/dxterm Can somebody explain why this, and other commands, are NOT stripped. Is this to sell more disks? Thanks, Piet Tutelaers uucp: rcpt@urc.tue.nl | Piet Tutelaers Room RC 1.82 bitnet: rcpt@heithe5.BITNET | Eindhoven University of Technology phone: +31 (0)40 474541 | P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (10/19/90)
In article <143@rc6.urc.tue.nl> rcpt@urc.tue.nl writes: > There are a lot of ULTRIX commands that are not stripped. On our Ultrix 3.1 > DECstations we have for example: > /usr/bin/dxterm: mipsel demand paged setuid executable not stripped - version 1. 31 > -rwsr-xr-x 5 root 5080168 Nov 16 1989 /usr/bin/dxterm > If I strip this command I get a size of: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rcpt 2727936 Oct 18 12:04 /rc6u1/rcpt/dxterm > > Can somebody explain why this, and other commands, are NOT stripped. Is this to > sell more disks? Most of the commands *are* stripped. Far too many of them in my opinion, since it makes it impossible to trace/debug them when something goes wrong. I'm not sure why some aren't stripped, perhaps because they do need to debugged, or because the program or some other program needs access to the symbol table or perhaps simple oversight... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)