On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And that "old_stat()" thing really ought to go some day.. It's not much of
> a support burden, and yeah, we can point people to "that old a.out binary
> from 1993 still works fine", so I guess we'll keep it another ten years,
> but at this point that has less to do with technical judgement than with
> sentimentality, I think ;^)
>
> But yeah, I think on the whole we've done pretty well on being binary
> compatible.
Im not sure we want to throw those things out. However all the stuff
that went out before libc5 could go into a legacy.c file that is only
liked if a.out loaders are present
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