qumak on Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:20:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] ELF Init section


Le Dimanche  3 Juin 2001 13:28, vous (gabriel rosenkoetter) avez écrit :

> Heh. Lost me, at least this early in the morning on a Sunday and for
> now, around the "making syscalls by hand" bit, but that's quite
> interesting. (I'm incidentally vaguely amused by the use of wc -c
> to count bytes in a binary rather than du. ;^>)

du would report filesize in blocks, if you have 4k blocks, it will show that 
file as 4k, no matter how much smaller it gets, which wouldn't be too useful 
for his excersize ;) (unless of course i'm missing an option to du somewhere 
that would give me an exact count...)

--qumak(james)


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