Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:00:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, sos@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Message-ID: <199610161300.PAA22225@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199610161241.WAA19100@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 16, 96 10:41:35 pm
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
>
> >I would wote for ALWAYS branding the ELF files, that way there is
> >NO doubt what sex they are, thus giving least trouble.
>
> How do you brand them on cdroms and on nfs [r/o] file systems, etc?
I don't 'cause I can't. I have made provision for defaulting one
type, and if not branded, that will be used.
Remember this is only (well almost) a problem with statically
linked ELF files, which all things equal should be pretty rare.
Do you have a better idea, short of patternmatching the first
page of the binary in question ?? I'm all ears :)
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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