From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 11:20:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C4816A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.u4eatech.com (blackhole.u4eatech.com [195.188.241.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3334643D41 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:20:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard.williamson@u4eatech.com) Received: by mail.u4eatech.com (Postfix, from userid 503) id AFEB03600B8; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:20:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from apus.u4eatech.com (apus.degree2.com [172.30.40.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.u4eatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023AF360070 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:20:28 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20040817122406.02797010@cygnus> X-Sender: richard@cygnus X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:24:14 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Richard P. Williamson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on mail X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 Subject: ot Re: ELF Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:20:35 -0000 At 11:32 17/08/2004. Siddhartha Jain had this to say: >Ofcourse, there are unconfirmed rumours that Linus Torvarlds was just >the front man for Santa Claus and the Tooth fairy, who actually wrote >the Linux kernel alongwith elves and hence the name Elf Kernel ;) Which would explain why the debug extensions to the ELF format are called DWARF. (ie, Debug With Arbitrary Record Format) rip