On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:05:36PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:34:30AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 10:39  AM, David Laight wrote:
> > >Could you make it a property of the filesystem that contains the 
> > >binary?
> > Err, I suppose in theory one could do that.  But that doesn't mean it 
> > would be a good idea :-)
> 
> It would address a specific circumstance that I expect David's
> thinking of: a dual-boot OpenBSD/NetBSD machine with some shared
> partitions. Or a system migrating from OpenBSD to NetBSD but wanting
> to keep locally developed applications without immediate
> porting/recompiling cost.

Or an NFS mounted filesystem....

You might even decide that (for a particular system) all the NetBSD
binaries are ELF, so that any a.out ones must be OpenBSD.

	David

-- 
David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk