Wasn't there also DLL hell on Windows?
My understanding is that very old statically linked Linux images still run today because paraphrasing Linus: "we don't break user space".
My understanding is that very old statically linked Linux images still run today because paraphrasing Linus: "we don't break user space".
The kernel doesn't break user space. User space breaks on its own.
Also, if you happened to have linked that image to a.out it wouldn't work if you're using a kernel from this year, but that's probably not the case ;)
But is there any fundamental reason why not?
> Also, if you happened to have linked that image to a.out it wouldn't work if > you're using a kernel from this year, but that's probably not the case ;)
I assume you refer to the retirement of coff support (in favor of elf). I would argue that given how long this obsolete format was supported was actually quite impressive.