From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 28 21:13:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com [171.69.43.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FA237B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA09705; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAT5DDI63288; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200011290513.eAT5DDI63288@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, dmaddox@sc.rr.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Other Linux stuff... In-Reply-To: <3A246C02.8963917F@cup.hp.com> References: <3A246C02.8963917F@cup.hp.com> Comments: In-reply-to Marcel Moolenaar message dated "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:37:54 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1513436366P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:13 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_1513436366P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > So, from a pure > ELF layout point of view, both shared objects and executables are the > same. But a shared library is not guaranteed to be executable. Allowing > shared objects to be executed is in violation with the specs: This may be a really stupid question, but what on Earth do they gain by allowing the execution of shared object files? Bruce. --==_Exmh_1513436366P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6JJBp2MoxcVugUsMRAtKHAJ4u2qbpXAFt18NPryzx7uGNbKvEAgCeLbj7 +jwVQ41FRHxl4/XnbcHVqpU= =G10L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1513436366P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message