GNU Shepherd 0.6 Released - Adds Support For One-Shot Services

[oleid]

I just did an experiment writing the shortest program that returns 1, in both C and Rust. I used level 2 optimizations.

C (GCC): 18 KB
Rust: 255 KB

Congrats, you discovered that GCC links libc dynamically, while rustc links it's standard library statically.

The following page lists, what you can do to get smaller binaries:

https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

His minimal example, which only prints "Hello World!" is 8 kiB large.

[nils_]

Oh great, I can use it to start systemd then.