Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 07:27:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Subject: Re: a.out/ELF Message-ID: <199605030527.HAA17379@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960502213245.10960B-100000@gilligan.eng.umd.edu> from Chuck Robey at "May 2, 96 09:36:53 pm"
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As Chuck Robey wrote: > I am still looking at the a.out/ELF stuff. Taking a look at the a.out > man page, it references at the top a.out.h, which seems a fairly useless > file, cause it's nearly empty. Further, there is no elf.h. I would > propose changing the a.out man page (at the top) to reference instead the > sys/imgact_aout.h file, which really carries a lot of useful info. On Don't do that. The mention of the include file there is _not_ intended to be a documention file for a.out (rather the man page itself is supposed to describe the format in detail), but is the suggested #include file somebody should use if he wants to handle a.out files. Likewise for ELF, we do need an <elf.h> file. The <sys/imgact_foo.h>'s are kernel interna which are of no interest for any user program. They describe the kernel-internal interface to the actual program loader. -- 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. ;-)
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