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Date:      Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Eric Chet <ec0@s1.GANet.NET>
To:        "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
Cc:        smpatel@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: possible 4th option? [Re: kern/1102]
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.960422083115.9677A-100000@s1>
In-Reply-To: <317B1566.41C67EA6@Glock.COM>

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On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, matthew c. mead wrote:

> I was looking through your discussion on the difficulties of
> differentiating a Linux ELF binary from a FreeBSD ELF binary.  The 2nd
> option you mention is the one in which you would use currently unused
> bytes in the ELF e_ident tag.  What you proposed for this method of
> distinguishing the two different systems' binaries was to modify each
> Linux executable so that it has an identification byte in it.  Since at
> this point we only (am I wrong here?) support Linux and FreeBSD ELF
> binaries, wouldn't it be sufficient to have our ELF binary generation
> utilities put an identifier for FreeBSD into the ELF binary as mentioned
> above, and if that is detected, use the FreeBSD sysvec set, otherwise
> assume the Linux sysvec set?
> 
Hello
	Well how about Slowaris ELF binaries?

Eric J. Chet (ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com || ec0@ganet.net)
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations


> 
> -matt
> 
> -- 
> Matthew C. Mead
> 
> mmead@Glock.COM
> http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
> 



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