2014-11-06 1:39 GMT-05:00 Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss <[email protected]>: > 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.
a.out and COFF are different, but what you meant is probably reasonable. When I needed to test something related to this I struggled to get a SunOS 4 binary with which to do it. This would get rid of at least rtld4.x, exec/aout, libbc > 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!) > This might be less true, some folks have claimed that there are parts of libucb that function somewhat usefully as a "linux compat" -- I think related to file locking? (though also, the implementation is apparently entirely wrong...) -- Rich ------------------------------------------- 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
