Subject: Re: linux emulation problem
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/1996 12:37:40
In article <199612190908.BAA26774@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> There's currently a hueristic used to to detect Linux binaries, by
> searching for the signature left by GCC.  If that signature is not
> present, well...

I suppose that far more people will try to run Linux than Solaris-x86
binaries. Wouldn't it be better to modify this detection code to
identify binaries as Linux binaries in such uncertain cases? Or is
there a technial reason for the current method?

-- 
Matthias Scheler
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