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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:20:56 -0500
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Xin LI <d@delphij.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>,  Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, re@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Removal of gzip'ed a.out support
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 9:17 PM Xin Li via freebsd-arch <
freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As part of the effort of unifying kernel zlib versions, we would like to
> propose that the gzip'ed a.out support at:
>
>         https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21099
>
> The support was disabled by default in 1999 (FreeBSD 3.0) when we moved
> to ELF world.  This proposed change will not affect user's ability to
> run regular a.out binaries.
>

It hasn't worked in two decades as far as I know.  It is time.

Warner

>



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