Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 15:41:07 +0200 | From | Peter Mutsaers <> | Subject | Re: Dropping a.out support |
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>> On Fri, 2 May 1997 08:33:30 -0500 (CDT), Michael Brennen >> <mbrennen@fni.com> said:
MB> After all this time one does not gain stability by removing MB> a.out. The one "efficiency" I can think of to dump the a.out MB> format is kernel size because it doesn't need the a.out loader MB> any more. How much does that take? If you don't want it, MB> just don't compile it in your kernels.
How about effeciency w.r.t one of the most important resources: The valuable time of Linux developers. I assume there is a reason that support for a.out is being dropped from ld.so: Some new feature that would require extra time to not only do it for ELF but also for a.out.
Also they do it for free and thus for fun; you cannot expect them to support old stuff forever and waste a lot of their time on this.
-- Peter Mutsaers Lucent Technologies, Network Systems plm@lucent.com Huizen, the Netherlands
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