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Subject: Re: execve
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:17:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
In-Reply-To: <199605020550.PAA30427@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 2, 96 03:50:29 pm
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> 
> OTOH, it would be easy to change config to emit:
> 
> static const struct execsw aout_execsw = { exec_aout_imgact, "a.out" };
> static const struct execsw elf_execsw = { exec_elf_imgact, "ELF" };
> const struct linker_set execsw_set = {
> 	2,
> 	{
> 		{ (caddr_t)&aout_execsw },
> 		{ (caddr_t)&elf_execsw },
> 		NULL
> 	}
> };
> 
but you'd have to educate config about every kind of linker set and
adding a new one would require changing config....
yuk
> Bruce
>