From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 16 20:33:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29231 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29225; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA25901; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610170333.UAA25901@austin.polstra.com> To: Jason Thorpe cc: Michael Smith , sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:13:36 PDT." <199610170313.UAA25575@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:33:09 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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