From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 23 15:55:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F84E37B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA21216; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:55:29 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpd0BA9Ua; Fri Feb 23 16:55:21 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA01722; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:55:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102232355.QAA01722@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand To: imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:55:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), marcel@cup.hp.com (Marcel Moolenaar), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200102232030.f1NKUEW83024@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 23, 2001 01:30:14 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : I like this idea..we can at least do it in -current, given the fact > : that older 4.x native binaries may apparently be unbranded. > > As david attemtped to cryptically point out, they are branded, but > with the "old style" brands which the kernel properly recognizes as > FreeBSD. I guess someone has told the USL derive ELF using UNIX vendors about this, so they can retroactively update all their binaries from all the third party vendors in the world? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message