Re: Get rid of them

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 23:15:51 +0100 (BST)


> I don't know if Linus wants to put this stuff in.
>
> But if he does say yes to it, I suggest we rename the modern syscall
> functions to the real name (ie. without "new" prepended to them).

Lots of people are using very old binaries. I still get the odd bit of email
from someone complaing that lrogue985 is in a "funny format" and won't run
[ie its a.out].

I guess 2.2 would be a good time to drop anything not used prior to
libc 4.6.27 , but to include anything 4.6.27 uses.

Alan