Re: Killing clones

Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:49:54 -0400 (EDT)

> In general this brings up the question of whether we want to enforce a
> requirement that people upgrade to glibc when we move forward to the 2.2
> kernel.....

Its important that 2.2 can run binaries compiled with libc5. I think
it would be very unfortunate if packages like netscape and acrobat quit
running. We could probably do something with the personalities to ensure
that for older binaries getpid()<2^15 and open()<256.

Jim