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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ELF cutover (was :Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()])
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:03:25 -0700 (MST)
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> The entire idea with building mixed-flavour tools is to be able to avoid
> a one-hit cutover; you should be able to work with a mixture of a.out 
> and ELF tools transparently.

Except the kernel; the combined boot code is within tens of bytes of
being too large, and is moderately kludged (not my opinion, the
author's).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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