From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 28 23:13:51 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA18292 for current-outgoing; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:13:51 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr ([132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA18286 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:13:50 -0700 Received: from masi.ibp.fr (root@masi.ibp.fr [132.227.60.23]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id IAA17303 ; Mon, 29 May 1995 08:13:14 +0200 Received: from hebe.ibp.fr (hebe.ibp.fr [132.227.64.34]) by masi.ibp.fr (8.6.11/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id IAA06143 ; Mon, 29 May 1995 08:11:32 +0200 From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Received: by hebe.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) id IAA26273 ; Mon, 29 May 1995 08:10:04 +0200 Message-Id: <199505290610.IAA26273@hebe.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: LINUX emulator working (dare I say DOOM here we goooooo) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 08:10:03 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu In-Reply-To: <199505290455.OAA28828@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 29, 95 02:55:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 719 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > - Linux OMAGIC shared executables (with text and data together) don't work. > - Linux ZMAGIC shared executables seem to work. Speaking of binary formats, the Linux community is currently moving towards ELF (the public release of ELF tools and libraries has been made one week ago). There is no ELF based binary distribution yet but I expect some to appear soon. Does the Linux compatibility code in FreeBSD handle the ELF format? > - FreeBSD's `file' works better than Linux's `file' to tell me what Linux > executables are :-). This may be the fault of the Linux installation > being old. Probably. Linux's `file' is the same one as the FreeBSD one, I think. It even contains the same bugs :-) Remy