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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux emulation and ELF 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:46:01 PDT."
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:39:51 +0100
From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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>Running Linux ELF binaries requires at least -stable, if not actually
>-current.  The Linux emulation in the 2.1R is for Linux a.out binaries
>only.
>
>There is a JDK "port" for regular FreeBSD-current.  It requires (I
>believe) Netscape b2 (the current version of Netscape is b4).  I
>believe the JDK uses shared context variables across applets,
>which is a huge security hole.  I don't know how the JDK can
>run in a fixed implementation, without changes.  I suspect there
>will need to be a definition of an authenticated IPC mechanism
>some time soon for the bugfixed versions.
>
>Otherwise, run a non-bugfixed version (like b2), but don't go out on
>the net with it.

I've seen this...unfortunately we're building real applications so Netscape
isn't much help.  I grabbed Jeffrey Hsu's port of JDK1.0, however this
seems to need shared Motif libs.  The Linux port has the Motif stuff
statically linked though.  (I don't really want to buy Motif just for the
sake of being able to work at home occasionally).

Thanks for the info.

	Scott

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