From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 15 02:38:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA19820 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 02:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA19813; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 02:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA21719; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:08:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610150938.TAA21719@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) To: sos@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:08:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610150933.LAA13406@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Oct 15, 96 11:33:42 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sos@FreeBSD.org stands accused of saying: > > > > Should I assume that this is the "what static ELF binary is this" problem? > > Exactly, the static ELF program is run as a FreeBSD native bin, there > is no way to know better (yet). > I guess we'll have to provide a solution for this shortcoming in > ELF (WHO said ELF was "the way to go" *sigh*) > I can do a "quick&dirty"(tm) little program that marks ELF bins so that > we can distinguish them, but it breaks the ELF std. one way or another. I don't think we want Q&D. I certainly don't. Where can I snarf the ELF spec to look at? This is going to get really annying _very_ soon 8( > Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[