On 22 Jul 2020, at 04:15, Warner Losh
<imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
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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.
Not sure where that fits into the /etc vs. /sbin timeline. ISTR Linux was somewhat
inclined away from the BSD way of doing things (in favour of Solaris/SVR4).
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