From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 17 12:35:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA24286 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24273 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (5.65v3.2/1.0/WV) id AA10311; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:24:21 -0400 Received: from whydos.lkg.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA10949; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:24:19 -0400 Received: from localhost.lkg.dec.com (localhost.lkg.dec.com [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA27242; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:31:45 GMT Message-Id: <199610171531.PAA27242@whydos.lkg.dec.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whydos.lkg.dec.com: Host localhost.lkg.dec.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:32:43 +0200." <199610171732.TAA16530@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:31:44 +0000 From: Matt Thomas Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In <199610171732.TAA16530@keltia.freenix.fr> , you wrote: > According to sos@freebsd.org: > > 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... > > I've been contacted by someone I supposed to be an OpenBSD guy (Theo was in > Cc:) about ELF binaries recognition. I've directed him to John and you. I've been involved with the same issue re; NetBSD. NetBSD/alpha is about ready to switch to ELF once we figure a way to uniquely brand NetBSD ELF files. > Has anyone contacted Linus for the same problem ? It would be nice if every > free UNIX could use the same method. Linus doesn't care. I had this discussion about a month ago. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message