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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:08:29 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Linux compat issue(s)
Message-ID:  <199610150938.TAA21719@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610150933.LAA13406@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Oct 15, 96 11:33:42 am

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sos@FreeBSD.org stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Should I assume that this is the "what static ELF binary is this" problem?
> 
> Exactly, the static ELF program is run as a FreeBSD native bin, there
> is no way to know better (yet).
> I guess we'll have to provide a solution for this shortcoming in
> ELF (WHO said ELF was "the way to go" *sigh*)
> I can do a "quick&dirty"(tm) little program that marks ELF bins so that
> we can distinguish them, but it breaks the ELF std. one way or another.

I don't think we want Q&D.  I certainly don't.  

Where can I snarf the ELF spec to look at?  This is going to get really
annying _very_ soon 8(

> Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team

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