From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 25 17:30:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B9D37BCE0 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA33336; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007260039.RAA33336@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Julian Stacey" Cc: John Polstra , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:46:57 +0200." <200007251846.SAA63943@park.jhs.no_domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:39:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > From: John Polstra > > No, there isn't. I don't plan to do anything more with the a.out > > dynamic linker, as I consider it obsolete at this point. I'd > > BTW (last I looked) support of gzipped execs was only available for aout, not > for elf, ... one more residual use for aout, (apart from the discussed > default netscape) gzipped binaries are actually a terrible idea; they actually *waste* space in most cases. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message