From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 12:25:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02982 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02975 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25522; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:25:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA22036; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:25:36 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:25:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199803022025.NAA22036@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Nate Williams , John Saunders , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199803021918.MAA21545@mt.sri.com> <199803021959.LAA13358@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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. 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