Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:59:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:18:57 MST." <199803021918.MAA21545@mt.sri.com>
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> > > Is 3.0 going to be like Linux and understand both > > > executable formats? > > > > Which planet have you been on for the last year or so? Even 2.2 will > > run ELF binaries. 8) > > Except for the shared loader, it understands them. We still don't have > one that understands ELF libraries *except* from other OS's. Sure, but the shared loader is a feature of the libraries, not the kernel. If/when we have backwards-shared-ELF support, there'll be a loader for them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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