From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 12:02:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01064 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:02:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01059 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13358; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:59:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: Mike Smith , John Saunders , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:18:57 MST." <199803021918.MAA21545@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:59:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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