Subject: Re: Linux ELF binaries on current
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
From: Terry Moore <tmm@mcci.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/21/1995 16:49:38
> One more thing: if you have SVR4 emulation enabled as well, statically
> linked binaries won't work, because there is no way to distinguish
> between different OSs with ELF binaries for the same CPU type. No standard
> way at least. This is a serious flaw in ELF, imho. (what will happen
> in this case is simply that the svr4 code gets there first, will try
> to execute the binary and ends up dumping core because of a bad system
> call, svr4 numbering (and trap gate for that matter) is totally differeny
> from Linux).

Is there any way to work around this using an application launcher?
How does the kernel decide which emulation library to use?

--Terry