re: svr4, again

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Jason Thorpe writes:
> ...and while we're talking about "questionable utility"...
> 
> COMPAT_AOUT_M68K, COMPAT_M68K4K, and COMPAT_VAX1K are merely exec glue 
> (well, mostly; COMPAT_AOUT_M68K has some ancient stat()-related 
> emulation) for what are, at this point, ridiculously old a.out binaries 
> that you also need to have the entire a.out runtime for.
> 
> I would say at this point that nobody has any business running these 
> ancient a.out binaries.  All of these platforms switched to ELF **long** 
> ago.  Even though these layers are extremely thin, a reasonable argument 
> could be made that these should go, too.

i would argue that until we're willing to drop a.out exec
entirely we should keep the above.  let's not chip and hack
around it.


.mrg.