Are two separate binaries necessary?

[tomalok]

Would there any significant space savings if log_proxy and log_proxy_wrapper were the same binary, but recognized by what name they were executed and acted accordingly?

Take busybox as an example. Lots of individual utilities sharing a lot of common code, a lot of hard links to one binary.

[thefab]

interesting idea!

with a static build, it would save between 1 and 2 MB
but with a dynamic build, it would save between 20 and 30 KB

as the most of "space" is taken by dependencies (see #14)