[illumos-Developer] ON is bloated and a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be there should be ripped out (was Re: Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal)

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 19:02 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
> > > Its not a formal list... I'd have to go looking.  One thing that I do
> > > think we can probably clean up is the support for legacy SunOS 4.1 a.out
> > > executables.  Its been a few decades now, and I think the need to
> > > support executing such programs has long since passed.
> > 
> > That's one place I disagree. I regard SunOS4.x binary compatibility as a
> > massive advantage - and I run a *lot* of stuff that way. Most of it simply
> > can't be rebuilt (no source, even if the company that made it was still in
> > existence) or replaced. Sun hardware and software has lifetimes
> > measured in decades; many companies rely on this (often unknowingly).
> > 
>
>
> Right, but can't these be run in an S10C zone or in a VM?

Obviously no!

SunOS-4.x support depends on kernel callbacks.

Jörg

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