From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ab217670601200358n36c0ebe0p@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:58:24 -0800 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ... In-Reply-To: <775b8d190601191428k8329b69ibe96d9ebebeaffec@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43CFD24B.5010007@lanl.gov> <775b8d190601191428k8329b69ibe96d9ebebeaffec@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e11c72e8-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The specific reason many Linuxes do this is for i386 compat on AMD64 architectures. It's horribly broken, but is only slightly worse than the way FreeBSD implements it, which is to have /usr/lib32 --Devon