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Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s)
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:03:32 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199610170726.AAA27718@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Oct 17, 96 00:26:46 am
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In reply to Jason Thorpe who wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:15:26 +0200 (MET DST) 
>  sos@freebsd.org wrote:
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> This should be done by the regular toolchain, of course.

It will be, John Polstra (our ELF guru :) ), will put in the
support for it, we just need brandelf to "brand" binaries
coming from the unwashed masses...


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