> >I have a patch (I'm planning to submit in early 2.3) that causes
> >a.out binaries that ar 1kB aligned to be read totally into anonymous memory
> >when they are started, keeping functionality but not optimum memory sharing...
> 
>     As someone who's got a 99.44% [1] a.out linux distribution, I think
>     this is a really REALLY bad idea.  Building a.out objects is
>     already, umm, interesting enough without having to worry about an
>     ongoing war against the kernel.

Your a.out binaries will be 4K aligned.

BTW does this mean you've done the fixes to make libc4 believe in years after
1999 ?


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