Re: 2.2.8pre6, can't run ZMAGIC binaries

Eloy A. Paris (eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com)
11 May 1999 18:40:56 GMT


Hello everyone!

Just found this on linux-kernel.

Remember when we had the problem with the BTS and the old qmail a.out
binary that Ian was using to run the BTS?

He-he. Well, perhaps after the release of 2.2.8 we can switch back to
the old a.out binary :-)

peloy.-

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>
>> I think this will fix your problem:
>
> Oh, f**k.
>
> Yes, we're screwed by old 1kB-aligned binaries - I forgot that we still
> had things like that. Oh, well..
>
> Interesting that anybody still runs the old kind of a.out binaries, and
> that there are actually commercial binary-only stuff that depends on it.
>
> Linus
>
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