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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:14:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen)
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, newton@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c
Message-ID:  <199902051714.JAA40922@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902051636.LAA15502@lor.watermarkgroup.com> from Luoqi Chen at "Feb 5, 1999 11:36:28 am"

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Luoqi Chen writes:
> > newton      1999/02/04 19:47:47 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             imgact_elf.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Additional note on last rev:  The rationale for this is to allow you
> >   to run Solaris executables (or executables from any other ELF system)
> >   directly off the CD-ROM without having to waste megabytes of disk
> >   by copying them to another filesystem just to brand them.
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.50      +1 -1      src/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c
> > 
> None of the executables under usr/ on the CD-ROM are statically linked, so

This is not about solaris/x86 CD-ROM.
This change allows to install something from the any given CD w/o branding
it first.

> you don't need to brand them at all. The problem is that the interpreter name
> in the svr4 elf brand structure is *WRONG*, it should be /lib/ld.so.1, not
> /lib/libc.so.1 (svr4/svr4_sysvec.c).
> 
> -lq
> 

-- dima

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