From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 16:15:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (fep1-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61882154A6 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.clear.net.nz) Received: from buddha.clear.net.nz (buddha.clear.net.nz [192.168.24.106]) by fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.11) with ESMTP id LAA10686; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:15:47 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by buddha.clear.net.nz (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA82209; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:15:34 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jabley) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:15:34 +1200 From: Joe Abley To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Warner Losh , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <19990429111534.B81921@clear.co.nz> References: <199904281823.OAA93307@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199904281823.OAA93307@bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:46PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:46PM -0400, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > A resource fork can be useful to help application developers targeting > multiple OS's. Each OS seems to have its own special rules about where > supplemental static data should be stored. While we're busy re-inventing the Mac :) how about the concept of fat binaries? Is there any reason why we couldn't support ELF binaries with multiple pageable executables embedded in it, so that a single distributed binary could support multiple architectures? You could always strip the binaries down to a single architecture if you were short of space... Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message