From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 11:32:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB9D14C2A for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA90043; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:31:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA15792; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:31:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199904281831.MAA15792@harmony.village.org> To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Cc: W Gerald Hicks , Alfred Perlstein , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:26:15 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:31:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [[ cc lines trimmed ]] PEOPLE. PLEASE TRIM THE CC LINES!!!! Thanks In message Chuck Robey writes: : Doing this via elf, that could be a godsend, because it's such a natural : place to stick things. That's why I asked for a standard API for such a : thing. Folks probably looked at that request anf thought "but it's : trivial and can be done via objcopy now" but it's the advertising of the : standard, that FreeBSD will offer this neat place to put things, and a : standard way to get at them, that's where the real value lies. I agree completely. We need a standard way of doing this, and that's why the OS people are doing it, not the X people... It isn't just for X things. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message