Comment by muth02446

1 day ago

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".

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SkiFire13  1 day ago

> we don't break user space

The kernel doesn't break user space. User space breaks on its own.

mook  1 day ago

Unfortunately you can't really statically link a GUI app.

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 ;)

  • muth02446  8 hours ago

    > Unfortunately you can't really statically link a GUI app.

    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.