Re: [PATCH][RFC] New 'true' program

[Paul Eggert]

Felipe W Damasio <address@hidden> writes:

> It's semantically _equivalent_ to the current 'true' code on
> coreutils,

No, as it doesn't support "true --version" or "true --help".

>       The regular executable is 6.7K, and the stripped version is 3.2K.

If small size is all you want, I can do a lot better than that:

$ ls -l true
-rwxr-xr-x  1  eggert  eggert  10  2004-11-19 22:18  true
$ ./true; echo $?
0

(The 10-byte implementation is left to the reader.  :-)