From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932087AbWGKSqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751180AbWGKSqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:46:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:31414 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbWGKSqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:46:54 -0400 Message-ID: <44B3F203.3020500@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:46:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Olaf Hering , Jeff Garzik , Michael Tokarev , Roman Zippel , torvalds@osdl.org, klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? References: <20060711044834.GA11694@suse.de> <44B37D9D.8000505@tls.msk.ru> <20060711112746.GA14059@suse.de> <44B3D0A0.7030409@zytor.com> <20060711164040.GA16327@suse.de> <44B3DA77.50103@garzik.org> <20060711171624.GA16554@suse.de> <44B3E7D5.8070100@zytor.com> <20060711181552.GD16869@suse.de> <44B3EC5A.1010100@zytor.com> <1152644023.18028.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1152644023.18028.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 11:22 -0700, ysgrifennodd H. Peter Anvin: >> You know how much code there is in glibc to make your /bin/ls still work? > > A static linked pre libc 2.2 (thats libc not glibc) ls works fine today, > as does a 0.98.5 era built rogue binary Didn't work when I tried it, although that was a shared binary (and yes, I had the library there.) I assumed mostly that ZMAGIC support had bitrotted -- even back in '95 there was a lot of problems with ZMAGIC binaries when ext2 block size was > 1K. -hpa