Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:41:53 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) Message-ID: <199611101841.MAA22803@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199610151816.UAA01759@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> References: <199610151643.JAA03974@austin.polstra.com>
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In article <199610151816.UAA01759@SandBox.CyberCity.dk>, Soren Schmidt <sos@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> wrote: >to do SVR4 emulation we will NEED a way to tell them apart. So having >a nice little util that marks the ELF header in ways for us to know >is the ONLY solution to this problem, like it or not.=20 I am not familiar with ELF in particular, but other modern binary file formats (IFF, MFF, PNG, even GIF) support a mechanism for adding entries to the file without having to understand the file's content completely. What's wrong with using a NOTE field. Sure, the binary's size will change but all the offsets should automagically drop in...
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