From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 04:52:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA17539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:52:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [194.183.217.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17525 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 04:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: from localhost (didier@localhost) by omnix.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA24181; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:52:01 GMT (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:52:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Didier Derny To: os2_daemon@altavista.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is "ELF" ? In-Reply-To: <9810090641265C.02386@web04> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 os2_daemon@altavista.net wrote: > > I've seen so many ELFs around. > Could anyone explain what's an ELF ? > Thank's. according to the Webster: ------------------------- 1- A small, often mischievous imaginary creature believed to possess magical powers 2- A mischievous child 3- A dwarf. :-)))))) I also would like to know the meaning of "ELF". and in a few words the possibilities and the reason why it was so important for FreBSD to move from a.out to elf. (I know that some people consider that this subject has been debated too much on the mailing lists but I would like to know why I have to tell my clients that the the applications I wrote several years ago have problems with the new FreeBSD 3.0 and that I will have to spend time to fix) -- Didier Derny didier@omnix.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message