From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 15:28:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16436 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA16427 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id XAA07113 ; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:27:51 +0100 (BST) To: "Brett L. Hawn" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 17:14:39 CDT." Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 23:27:50 +0100 Message-ID: <7111.831508070@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Brett L. Hawn" wrote in message ID : > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > DOH! :) I was under the impression the exec format had changed slightly.. > guess I've been screwing with that last linux box too often. *grumbles > something about a.out vs ELF* Nope. ld.so has been modified to make it faster and sort out some dynamic library ordering problems which caused a complete nightmare a while back in some circumstances. Not much has been done to the kernel imgact_*.c code for ages, apart from bugfixes and new loaders (gzip, elf). Certainly nothing to prevent 2.0 programs working if you have the relevant shlibs, or if they are static, just the right loader in the kernel. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.