Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:59:25 +0300 (EEST) | From | Samuli Kaski <> | Subject | Re: 2.1/2.2: a.out question |
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
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> For reference, my system is based on an Intel P166 processor with 96M > of RAM and (currently) 4.5G of HD space, to be upped to 10.9G shortly > (I bought the drive today, but have yet to fit it) running RedHat 5.0 > and I've also verified that I currently don't have any a.out binaries > on my system using the following command as root: > > Q> for Z in `find / -name '*'` ; do file $Z ; done \ > Q> | grep executable | grep -v ELF | grep -v script | less > > On my system, that produced a blank display...
I would hope blank = empty as contain is concerned - blank is usually associated with negative linux performance...
But anyway.. this started out nicely.. I have received a couple of personal e-mails and some that were also sent to the list.
What I would really like would be for the men in charge (L, A, T) to comment is it just for maintaining > 2.0 > 1.3 > 1.2 compatibility why we should have a.out in our kernels.
Thank you all for your professional/thought out input sofar.
-- Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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