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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:57:04 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r248525 - head/sbin/ldconfig
Message-ID:  <201303191657.r2JGv4hk064062@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: imp
Date: Tue Mar 19 16:57:04 2013
New Revision: 248525
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248525

Log:
  Add a comment about why aout support is still here: We need it for
  compat2x, which is still in use, as evidence by recent bug reports.

Modified:
  head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c

Modified: head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c	Tue Mar 19 16:33:43 2013	(r248524)
+++ head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c	Tue Mar 19 16:57:04 2013	(r248525)
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ static void		listhints(void);
 static int		readhints(void);
 static void		usage(void);
 
+/*
+ * Note on aout/a.out support.
+ * To properly support shared libraries for compat2x, which are a.out, we need
+ * to support a.out here.  As of 2013, bug reports are still coming in for this
+ * feature (on amd64 no less), so we know it is still in use.
+ */
+
 int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {



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