Re: [PATCH] 2.3.18ac7 (and probably 8): Shut up a.out complaints

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
23 Sep 1999 17:44:38 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.E11UHc6-0003nL-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> How many people, aside from the small cohort that use Mastodon,
>> actually have any a.out binaries on their machines anymore? I'd say
>> it's a very safe bet that anyone who is using a.out binaries now is
>> doing it deliberately, and thus doesn't need those helpful reminders
>> convert their system to all ELF.
>
>It probably ought to warn a couple of times and shut up for 2.3.x then. Its
>a sound argument
>
>> david parsons \bi/ To say nothing of the small detail that I can't get
>> \/ libc5'ed elf binaries to run on 2.3.x...
>
>How do they fail ?

If I'm a non-root user, I get "permission denied", even for ldd.
If I'm root, all is peachy.

Veeeeery annoying.

I dual-boot this machine (or did, before I blew away the disk and
put a new copy of Mastodon on it) with 2.0.28, and netscape works
there. gl*bc'ed binaries continue to be happy, so Civilization
works; on my development machines, Netscape is the only libc5'ed
binary in the shop, and that doesn't work. If I recall correctly,
Netscape still worked with 2.3.15.

Currently I'm writing it off as a local configuration thing; The
list of patches I've been hawking to every kernel hacker that
doesn't run fast enough to get away are the more critical things.
If it's still broken with 2.3.20, then I'll begin to fret.

____
david parsons \bi/ It's possible that building everything -m386
\/ may be hopelessly confusing ld-linux.so

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