Re: a.out vs. ELF speed (WAS Re: Will a.out disappear?)

Shawn McHorse (smchorse@ringer.cs.utsa.edu)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:15:38 -0600

In article <96Feb27.181103est.107958-20544+80@vger.rutgers.edu> you write:
>(preferably with someone less familiar with the system.) Also consider
>that you're probably running mixed-ELF/Aout (I've only heard of one
>person running *pure* ELF and I don't think it was you :-) which would

Hmph. I've been running pure ELF for several months now. I got rid of the
old a.out libc about four months ago now. And I even did most of the compiling
myself (this was during the ELF beta-testing, before ELF Slackware existed).
I only grabbed like two or three binaries from the ELF Slackware distribution,
for stuff I either couldn't get to compile or couldn't find the source for.
Anyway, I'm just trying to emphasize that there are probably more pure ELF users
out there than you may think. Hell, I'm not even bothering to compile the a.out
module (never mind compiled-in support) with the newer 1.3.xx kernels. Love
that new configuration option...:->

Shawn McHorse
smchorse@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
An Austin NorthCross-Dresser