From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 01:52:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA26210 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:52:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26175 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:52:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23112 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:51:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21142 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:51:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA13231 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:39:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601040939.KAA13231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:39:45 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <5130.820701739@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 96 12:42:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I don't have any personal antipathy against ELF (I must have missed > Joerg's original post - I've only seen references in follow-ups) I > just have an antipathy against: > > 1. Adopting new technologies for the apparent sake of it, and > especially when they're going to be *really painful* in the > transition. We could learn from Linux. I don't see why one has to make it that painful. If it can't be done without breaking backwards compatibility, i'm against it. (Read this: a.out binaries have to run in the new environment as well, at the only added cost of another shlib that's bloating the RAM.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)