Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Dropping a.out support | Date | 2 May 1997 21:03:05 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0wNIqq-0006Y3C@dingo.theplanet.co.uk> By author: Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@ThePLAnet.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I may be talking rubbish here (since I know very little about the shared > library stuff), however would it not be possible to make the kernel's bin > loader for a.out & elf binaries use different implementations of the run > time linker so that you have 2 ld.so programs, one for elf the other for > a.out. > > Then you can easily and modularly decide which you support on each > machine, and the 2 can be developed independently >
The runtime linker isn't even a kernel issue: it is loaded by the binary. I'd say just freeze the current /lib/ld.so (which is the a.out linker - /lib/ld-linux.so.1 is the ELF linker) and let it be...
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