Subject: Re: linux emulation problem
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/1996 17:34:43
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>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM> writes:
    Scott> That's preciely the problem.  ELF doesn't (currently)

  This suggests that there might be a way to do this? 
  I would have no problem "stamping" my Linux binaries with some
program that adds the right tags.

    Scott> is that if you have an ELF executable, it uses the SVR4
    Scott> ABI.  Currently we attempt to hack around this limitation
    Scott> by looking for clues that the binary might have been built
    Scott> for a Linux system, but as Jason pointed out, those clues
    Scott> aren't always there.

  Linux has iBCS support. Does it also have SVR4 support? If so, how
does it distinguish things? Or has the Linux ELF ABI simply become a
superset of SVR4 ABI?

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