On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:56 AM, <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de> wrote:

here are efforts to build a staticly linked linux distribution:

http://stali.suckless.org/

have not tried it on linuxemu yet, but from the discription they
will use some alternative tiny libc.

looks like the right direction...

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cinap


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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:08:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [9fans] LinuxEMU
cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:

> look at some typical syscall traces...  tons of files are stat()ed...
> multiple times...  it opens unix domain sockets to talk to a not
> existant ldap name service or something...  tons of shared libraries
> are loaded...  and that is all before even your main() entry is gets
> called...

ACK. Much of this crap is done by glibc.
Perhaps an specialized libc would be a good way to go ?


cu
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