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sleep has 9MB

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
docker, rust
Domain
build-system, cli

Research direction

Start with the Windows nanoserver command examples and the coreutils sleep entry point; compare the reported sleep.exe and ping sizes. Determine whether static compilation is in scope and what measurable size target or build change would count as done.

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Description

sleep has 9MB
I was thinking about changing classic
docker run -d --name docker-test mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2025 cmd /c ping -t localhost > NUL
to
docker run -d --name docker-test mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2025 cmd /c sleep infinity > NUL

but ping has 500kB and sleep has 9MB
So if coreutils were compiled as static builds, what would the size of sleep.exe be?

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