From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Dec 5 17:17:03 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA17105 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA17093 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.37]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA06464; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:17:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32A79D8D.75BC@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 20:14:15 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Mini CC: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Mini wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Pedro Giffuni S. wrote: > > > > FreeBSD distinguishes between Linux´s ELF and fbsd´s ELF (never have > > seen one of those though) but I don´t know if there´s an additional tag > > in FBSD´s ELF´s for that purpose. I always run a.out´s (I use 2.1.5), is > > there any particular advantage in using ELF? > > As far as I know, the only advantage behind ELFs is proper implementation > of shared libs and other such resources. But FreeBSD's a.out's are more > than capable of handling such beasties. That is one of the principle > reasons why it has taken FreeBSD "so long" to implement elf. > Linix is proud of thier ELFs, I have never understood why. I have heard > that thier a.outs are not as robust, but I can't confirm it. > The exact term someone on this list used was "sucks" :). Yes fbsd is very superior in this sense to Linux, what I wonder is if I should prefer elf binaries under Linux´s emulation. It probably is the same thing. Pedro. > Jon Mini, j_mini@efn.org, mini@4j.lane.edu > GAMMA Development Team > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...." > little.blue.engine:Reality Protection Fault. (core dumped) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------