Subject: Re: COMPAT_AOUT removal
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 08/08/2000 19:59:36
>     Date:        Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
>     From:        Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
>     Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.21.0008070755590.22789-100000@server.int.duh.org>
> 
>   | For instance, if I do `ls /usr'
>   | using a Linux colorls, I get the same behavior.
> 
> Yes, and since the sources for the linux ld.so can be obtained, that

It is not that simple. Sometimes various old/weird versions of linux
ld.so/ld-linux.so are required and it would be extremely difficult
to satisfy such requirements without /emul/* pathname translation.
Please keep it the way it works now.


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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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