We have a few things (many things) which have probably out lived their usefulness.
1. I submit the ability to run a.out (COFF) binaries from SunOS 4.x — which only ever worked on SPARC — is one of them. Indeed, we can barely manage to keep SPARC itself alive, trying to retain this legacy is pretty much impossible — I don’t think we can even really test it anymore. (I long ago lost all my SunOS 4.x binaries!!) I therefore propose removing this capability. 2. I submit furthermore, that the ability to run even binaries linked against libucb is no longer really useful. Indeed, we can’t compile such binaries anymore, and haven’t been able to do so for a while. I therefore suggest that the time is ripe (past due!) for removal of this library — which really existed to facilitate source compatibility with SunOS 4.x. (I.e. stuff made obsolete 20 years ago!) (As an ancillary project, I want to remove most of the UCB compatibility bits into a separate repo, out of -gate, except that I think printenv, whoami, and users should be moved into /usr/bin because they are so often widely useful. However, I see this as possibly more contentious, so I’m not making this part of my proposal at this point.) - Garrett ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
