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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 b

• mook 9mo 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 9mo 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.
• SkiFire13 9mo ago
  > we don't break user space The kernel doesn't break user space. User space breaks on its own.