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Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s)
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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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