From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 3:25:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C700114F38 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 03:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:24:34 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk ([10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id JR5C7PMB; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:17:44 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10cRZr-000LHz-00; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:28:27 +0100 To: Joe Abley Cc: John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support X-Mailer: nmh-1.0 X-Colour: Green Organization: Palmer & Harvey McLane In-Reply-To: Joe Abley's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:20:20 +1200" <19990428222020.A70537@clear.co.nz> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:28:26 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 April 1999, Joe Abley proclaimed: > This all sounds very non-unixy. But I don't really know why. Because it's exactly what the Mac has been doing for over a decade. I don't think that there's anything terribly wrong with the idea. In fact, it's good we are making use of the facilities that our ELF changeover has bought us. The one problem I do see with this idea however, is that it only applies to binaries, and not data. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- FORTRAN programmers manual -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message