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To: garyj@muc.de
Subject: Re: brandelf (necessary?) 
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In article <199903032249.XAA32433@peedub.muc.de>,
Gary Jennejohn  <garyj@muc.de> wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies writes:
> >In an environment where FreeBSD needs to run linux binaries
> >that are shared with linux systems, would it do harm to brandelf
> >these binaries? Or in other words, would it be possible for FreeBSD
> >to autodetect that it's a linux ELF binary without having to brand it?
> >
> 
> as long as the linuxulator is loaded (linux.ko) it does not seem to be
> necessary to brandelf Linux binaries. At least, that's been my experience.

If the executables are dynamically linked, the image loader can
normally guess their OS type based on the dynamic linker name that's
stored in the executable file.  But for statically-linked programs, a
correct brand is necessary.

John
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