Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:31:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <199904281831.MAA15792@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:26:15 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281422550.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281422550.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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[[ cc lines trimmed ]] PEOPLE. PLEASE TRIM THE CC LINES!!!! Thanks 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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