From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 0:45:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sussie.interbizz.se (ns.datadesign.se [194.23.109.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF57314FC5 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joachim.Isaksson@ibfs.com) Received: from tequila (dhcp140.ibfs.com [193.45.188.140]) by sussie.interbizz.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA14238; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:44:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <00d801be914a$fcc79be0$8cbc2dc1@ibfs.com> From: "Joachim Isaksson" To: "John Birrell" , References: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:44:44 +0200 Organization: Interbizz Financial Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm working on an application that is targeted at users who, based on > their exposure to a certain commercial OS, expect to be able to point > and clip their way through life, and to recognise things by little > pictures. There are a few things that I'd like to add to FreeBSD to > support this sort of application. The first is to build icon pixmaps > into each executable program. I know too little about the ELF linker to know this - would the .icon section be loaded into the memory space of the running process by the runtime linker or would it just take some (presumably minimal) disk space? /Joachim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message