[20754] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.15: kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Wed Sep 18 18:26:29 2002
Message-Id: <200209182226.SAA03354@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Reply-to: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:03:53 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:26:25 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> What were you trying to do?
> run various programs on dell workstations
>
> What's wrong:
> the kernel does not support a.out binaries,
> and yet many lockers contain a.out binaries
>
> What should have happened:
> the kernel should support a.out & ELF binaries
Can you be specific about which locker software? All the a.out Linux
binaries that I've seen have been in the games locker, which is really
and truely crufty. Since we don't build our own linux kernels, it's
probably simpler to fix the software.
