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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <16141@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:13:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.200016.6479@ukw.uucp> <1992Dec29.023817.18087@asd.com> <kbibb.725606456@maui>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Do you understand how linking works? ABIs? If so, why complain about
- >statically linked programs? Either this or the system wouldn't be
- >SVr4 compliant!
-
- Eh? Making 5.x capable of running 4.x programs wouldn't have made it
- *ipso facto* non-SVR4-ABI-compliant.
-
- It would, however, have made its kernel bigger and messier (and may have
- caused various other entertaining problems for binary interfaces *other*
- than kernel traps, e.g. file formats).
-