From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 28 05:45:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17760 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17716 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:44:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA26464; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:43:41 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA19891; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:41:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA10109; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:25:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28194; Thu, 28 Jan 99 14:32:38 +0100 Message-Id: <36B06811.96454712@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:37:21 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: am I using elf or a.out ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, First : file(1) tells you what binary format is used for each executable on your system. Then : On a 3.0-RELEASE, all userland utilities (ls, csh ....) are elf, the kernel is a.out and you can execute all a.out application program you want (for example netscape) on a recent 3.0(-Stable) userland and the kernel are all elf (you can still run a.out programs - this possibility will stay in FreeBSD 3.x) All of this will stay in 3.1 Release TfH Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > hello, > I would like to know if I am using elf system or a.out system > I have FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE and in /etc/objformat file > there writes OBJFORMAT=elf > but people here are talking that 3.0-RELEASE is still a.out ? > what am I missing? > Evren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message