Subject: Re: ELF integration on a.out platforms
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/09/1999 09:43:16
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> Currently there are two proposals on how to integrate elf:
[...]
> 2. Create new emulation /emul/aout and COMPAT_AOUT

I favor 2). It seems cleaner, especially given that a.out won't live
forever (i.e. in two or three years very few people will care any
longer and having permanent turds in the file hierarchy to support a
dead format seems wrong.)

Perry