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Re: What goes in /mit/locker/arch/i386_linux1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 25 02:15:49 1996
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Aug 1996 02:03:01 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 02:15:07 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It's not a contradiction in any way to have ELF executables in a
> directory called i386_linux1.
It is in one way: Linux 1.2.x did not fully support ELF.
Specifically, it didn't dump core for ELF executables. This is why,
prior to the release of Linux 2.0.x, I supported staying with a.out.
Now that Linux 2.0 is out and shortly to be the kernel in the
installation we recommend, I see no reason to continue supporting
a.out binaries. The past release is "deprecated," meaning we don't
plan to do any more development for it, so the lack of ELF core dumps
will not be an obstacle.
