From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 17 5:41:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1A5151EB for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 05:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id WAA17781; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:09:34 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA10605; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:09:34 +0930 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:09:30 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current kernel can't execute gzip'ed ELF executables! In-Reply-To: <37183314.F597AE6@altavista.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > If seems that 4.0-current (make world & kernel as of yesterday) can't > execute ELF gzip'ed binaries with following symptoms: I enquired about this a few months ago (but didn't hear anything in reply). As far as I've been able to work out, the facility was never intended to work with ELF executables because no-one's updated it from using a.out executables. It's a shame since that can be quite useful on machines where disk space is tight, but I have no idea how hard it will be to get working again. Kris ----- The Feynman problem-solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem 2. Think real hard 3. Write down the solution To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message