Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: The elves are coming | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:25:41 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> |
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jon@gte.esi.us.es wrote: > It is only the kernel that is ELF only, you can still be 100% a.out in > userland if you like. Linus is changing how the kernel is loaded and this > is very much dependant on the binary format, trying to keep the old > a.out kernel is just asking for bugs to leak in.
I disagree. It is my experience that making sure your code runs in slightly different environments is a way of eliminating bugs (that don't show up on one environment or the other). But I would agree that there is no future in a.out and it should be dropped for that reason.
I am still very concerned that te 2.0 kernel is showing up many bugs and that support is shifting to 2.1. I feel no temptation to change from my present 2.0.0 up to 2.0.21 or thereabouts because it doesn't seem to buy my users anything other than different bugs. I might as well gather more data on the kernel I have.
(Actually I feel that 1.3.90 was where I felt happiest in the kernel development series, all in all... after that a series of major changes broke lots of things one after the other. I am just upgrading a portable that got left with a 1.3.90 kernel and it is #%$@ to fix the things I need so that they work after the upgrade).
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