Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:15:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, sos@freebsd.org, jdp@polstra.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Message-ID: <199610170715.JAA01884@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199610170313.UAA25575@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Oct 16, 96 08:13:36 pm
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In reply to Jason Thorpe who wrote:
>
> After a week-long e-mail exchange, nothing really useful came out of
> it at all... Two ideas were discussed among the NetBSD developers:
>
> (1) Use some of the unused bytes at the end of e_ident[].
> I.e. have something like:
>
> \177 E L F <class> <data> <version> N B S D
>
> If some OS chooses not to look at the entire e_ident[]
> field, well, tough :-)
This is what I just added support for in FreeBSD, we currently
"know" brands "FreeBSD" & "Linux", and there is a util brandelf
to set the bits if need be.
> (2) Use a special notes section.
Probably cleaner, but not feasible on allready linked binaries.
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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