From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 2 14:39:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27567 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 14:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27476 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 14:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA06193 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 23:38:13 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA01314 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 2 May 1996 23:38:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA14762 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 2 May 1996 22:40:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605022040.WAA14762@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: execve To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 22:40:41 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605011946.MAA10116@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 1, 96 12:46:09 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > A quick grep points to the TEXT_SET() macros. Looks like black magic > > however. :) > > It's pretty simple. ... > This construct is called a "linker set". ... > It's initially confusiong, but *extremely* flexible. I agree. Can i convince you to form this into linker_set(9)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)