From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 5 15:20:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21456 for current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA21436 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA20616; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:20:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id XAA14649; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 23:55:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 23:55:09 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rcarter@consys.com (Russell L. Carter) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux ELF codine no go on 2.2 Gamma References: <199702052016.NAA22784@conceptual.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702052016.NAA22784@conceptual.com>; from Russell L. Carter on Feb 5, 1997 13:16:46 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Russell L. Carter wrote: > $ cod_qmaster > ELF binary type not known > Abort trap I think you have to `brandelf' it. There's no man page, so ask the author about the usage. :-) > $ file cod_qmaster > cod_qmaster: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 Well, as you can see, there's no system information in an ELF file (i.e., file(1) would print the same message for a FreeBSD ELF binary). If the execve() code can't figure out what it is, it must abort. -- 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. ;-)