Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:25:36 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199803022025.NAA22036@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199803021918.MAA21545@mt.sri.com> <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.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. True, but we can build shared libraries/binaries now, and we don't (yet) have a shared loader for them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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