From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 18:44:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F5A15772 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id KAA04829; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:43:45 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3727AA03.AA84571E@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:38:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ladavac Marino Cc: "'Joe Abley'" , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761795F3@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ladavac Marino wrote: > > [ML] Well, it sounds like MacOS, or OS/2 with their structured > files. It sounds like Windows, too. But these capabilities are not bad > (in fact, a colleague of mine has been recently complaining about > missing desktop support under X11--he is a OS/2 fan). Until ELF, UNIX > didn't really have support for structured executables; now it does, this Sure it did. FS layers. And they work for all kinds of files, not only executables. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message