From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 02:06:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA26858 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 02:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA26852 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 02:06:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tXmZB-0003wQC; Thu, 4 Jan 96 02:06 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA02842; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:06:32 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 10:39:45 +0100." <199601040939.KAA13231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 11:06:31 +0100 Message-ID: <2840.820749991@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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.) I don't see why this should break anything. We just have to decide that we can load both elf & a.out shlibs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.