From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 17 11:56:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21455 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA21450 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA06086; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610171844.LAA06086@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:44:01 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:32:43 +0200 roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote: > Has anyone contacted Linus for the same problem ? It would be nice if every > free UNIX could use the same method. As I stated in a previous mail to this list, Matt Thomas and I had this discussion with Linus. He simply wasn't interested. His way to make it all work properly was to make all of the ABIs look like Linux. Eventually, the thread turned into "why making all ABIs look like Linux was not an acceptable solution". Matt's idea was to create a standard for denoting OS-ness of an ELF executable, which could eventually be proposed to commercial vendors. Personally, I think it'd be great to have a way to distingish between the *BSD flavors. (I'm no longer so enthusiastic about expending the effort to include Linux on this, given Linus's attitude toward the problem.) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939