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KS2008: Linux 3.0KS2008: Linux 3.0Posted Sep 16, 2008 9:11 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: KS2008: Linux 3.0
Does anyone *try* to run binaries from 1991? The last person I heard of running binaries of remotely that age was Alan Cox, and as I understand it he stopped some time ago.
I know a.out support is routinely broken for fairly long stretches of time, and nobody notices.
We can still run binaries from 1991, *in theory*. The practice seems to be quite different.
IMHO we could probably drop all syscalls that were obsolete before the a.out->ELF transition without anyone noticing for a very long time indeed. (a.out support itself might be trickier to drop: is anyone still using it anywhere?)
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KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 13:34 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]
well, the quick-and-dirty test program I compiled over the weekend produced a file a.out when I did gcc filename.c, so I would assume that this is still the a.out format.
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 14:40 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] LOL. You are so funny!
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 14:42 UTC (Tue) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] the quick-and-dirty test program I compiled over the weekend produced a file a.out when I did gcc filename.c, so I would assume that this is still the a.out format.
bfields@pig:~$ cat >test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("hello world\n");
}
bfields@pig:~$ gcc test.c
bfields@pig:~$ file a.out
a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
(Woah, I just wrote a whole program with "cat >test.c", I must be 133t!)
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 15:19 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The real l33t is compiling programs with e.g.
gcc -x c <<'EOF'
:)
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 16:16 UTC (Tue) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]
What's this "compile" thing folks keep mentioning? The truly l33t prefer to simply "cat > a.out".
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 20:16 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Most of us can only *aspire* to be Al Viro.
KS2008: Linux 3.0 Posted Sep 16, 2008 21:20 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Nah, you can't correct a line once you hit enter. But you can do it in one line:
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