Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:38:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net, imp@harmony.village.org Cc: bright@rush.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au, wghicks@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <199904281838.OAA16131@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <199904281831.MAA15792@harmony.village.org>
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> > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281422550.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> Chuck Robey writes: > : Doing this via elf, that could be a godsend, because it's such a natural > : place to stick things. That's why I asked for a standard API for such a > : thing. Folks probably looked at that request anf thought "but it's > : trivial and can be done via objcopy now" but it's the advertising of the > : standard, that FreeBSD will offer this neat place to put things, and a > : standard way to get at them, that's where the real value lies. > > I agree completely. We need a standard way of doing this, and that's > why the OS people are doing it, not the X people... It isn't just for > X things. > > Warner > Well then, given that... shouldn't we design the interface people would use - and then worry about the implementation (which could very well take advantage of ELF on FreeBSD, and some other mechanism on a different box.) - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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