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SubjectRe: This thread is silly (Re: Dropping a.out support)
>Just to make a point, I just got ld.so 1.9.2, installed it 
>and happily played a game of doom (gawd does it look like wolf3d :) ).

>So, your old binaries will still work because they will use /lib/ld.so
>(which seems to be from 1.8.9 on my box). Installing ld.so 1.9.2 won't
>touch that file at all. The elf loader is /lib/ld-linux.so.1.

Right.

So, suppose you install a brand new, really fast machine from a fresh
distribution which only has ld.so 1.9.2, mount your application server
via NFS (or copy it over), then try to start up doom or Maple VR3.

What happens?
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