Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bart Dorsey" <> | Subject | Re: Dropping a.out support | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 08:51:07 -0500 |
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---- From: Michael Brennen <mbrennen@fni.com> To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 8:51 AM Subject: Re: Dropping a.out support
> >I have a copy of ViaCrypt PGP that is a.out format, and they only supply >binaries. Sure, I might be successful beating on PGP, Inc. to get an ELF >version, but I might not; they barely support Linux anyway (at least a >year ago). I need to run this on the main Web server, and it is not an >option to keep running old software on such a platform. Bugs get fixed >and features added that require the kernel updates. > >After all this time one does not gain stability by removing a.out. The one >"efficiency" I can think of to dump the a.out format is kernel size >because it doesn't need the a.out loader any more. How much does that >take? If you don't want it, just don't compile it in your kernels.
I compile a.out as a module and use kerneld to autoload it.. it's only in memory while a.out programs are running... so it's not so much the size of the kernel.. I would appreciate someone explaining what the "advantages" are to removing it.
> >One can hide many things behind the label "for the sake of progress". I >fail to see that any is made in this case. > > -- Michael > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bart Dorsey - bdorsey@bhs1.dsc.k12.ar.us Computer Support Tech - Bryant School District Linux, the choice of a GNU generation
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