svn commit: r248525 - head/sbin/ldconfig

[Warner Losh]

Author: imp
Date: Tue Mar 19 16:57:04 2013
New Revision: 248525
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248525

Log:
  Add a comment about why aout support is still here: We need it for
  compat2x, which is still in use, as evidence by recent bug reports.

Modified:
  head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c

Modified: head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c	Tue Mar 19 16:33:43 2013	(r248524)
+++ head/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c	Tue Mar 19 16:57:04 2013	(r248525)
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ static void		listhints(void);
 static int		readhints(void);
 static void		usage(void);
 
+/*
+ * Note on aout/a.out support.
+ * To properly support shared libraries for compat2x, which are a.out, we need
+ * to support a.out here.  As of 2013, bug reports are still coming in for this
+ * feature (on amd64 no less), so we know it is still in use.
+ */
+
 int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {