22 Jul
2020
22 Jul
'20
3:33 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 PM David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Yes. Those were the SunOS like ones, but with weird address location quirks.
Warner
Not sure where that fits into the /etc vs. /sbin timeline. ISTR Linux was
On 22 Jul
2020, at 04:15, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
<…>
The root disks date from a time before Linux had
shared libraries, I
thought,
IIRC, Linux had two different shared library implementations? I haven’t
looked, and don’t remember the details, but it might have been linked to
the switch from a.out to ELF for executables? IIRC, the pre-ELF shared
libs were a hack on the a.out executable format.
somewhat inclined away from the BSD way of doing
things (in favour of
Solaris/SVR4).
d