From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 22 09:11:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06495 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from novell.com (nj-ums.fpk.novell.com [147.2.128.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06490; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from INET-NJ-Message_Server by fromGW with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:08:24 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:17:06 -0400 From: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, DARREND@novell.com Cc: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... - Reply - Reply Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Serge A. Babkin 5/21 8:43pm >>> >BTW, SCO5 already has ELF support and most of its standard >utilities are already compiled in ELF format (I think they did it to use >the ELF shared libraries). > >-SB The SCO Open Desktop implementation of ELF is an abomination. There ELF support is basically incompatible with any SVR4. I think they did a disservice to the Unix community for creating yet another binary format. Though given the work and their direction with SVR3.2 at the time, it was probably their only choice. In talking with some of their engineers, they would have loved to do an SVR4 implementation of ELF, but they had too many constraints. I guess it's a moot point today :-( Darren R. Davis Senior Software Engineer Novell, Inc.