Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:33:09 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Message-ID: <199610170333.UAA25901@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:13:36 PDT." <199610170313.UAA25575@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Two ideas were discussed among the NetBSD developers: > > (1) Use some of the unused bytes at the end of e_ident[]. ... > (2) Use a special notes section. > > I think we pretty much settled on (1), since it's possible to strip > out all of the section headers, and still have a runnable executable. > (I think; correct me if I'm wrong. :-) OK, you're wrong. :-) The notes section gets an entry in the program header, which must remain for the program to be executable. It's a moot point anyway, since it looks like we (FreeBSD) are going with (1). John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610170333.UAA25901>