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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH 2/5] README: Remove a.out reference
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:42:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119204214.GI9569@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a01a16b50601191210g7bb0b4d6uca221f09b33b4a6a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:10:29PM +0100, H?kon L?vdal wrote:
> Removed a line promising that users still could run a.out user programs.
> As far as I know all distributions have removed libc.4 support years
> ago, so while the kernel itself still might support a.out, the promise
> is both 1) not needed anymore and 2) most likely not correct.

Don't be silly.  Some people still use libc4, as well as old binaries
which are statically linked.

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 20:10 [KJ] [PATCH 2/5] README: Remove a.out reference Håkon Løvdal
2006-01-19 20:42 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-01-20  2:19 ` Håkon Løvdal

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