On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 PM David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:

> > On 22 Jul 2020, at 04:15, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> > The root disks date from a time before Linux had shared libraries, I
> thought,
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> IIRC, Linux had two different shared library implementations?  I haven’t
> looked, and don’t remember the details, but it might have been linked to
> the switch from a.out to ELF for executables?  IIRC, the pre-ELF shared
> libs were a hack on the a.out executable format.
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Yes. Those were the SunOS like ones, but with weird address location quirks.

Warner

Not sure where that fits into the /etc vs. /sbin timeline.  ISTR Linux was
> somewhat inclined away from the BSD way of doing things (in favour of
> Solaris/SVR4).
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