On Thursday 20 March 2003 14:59, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 04:38  AM, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> > Can we ask 'em to fix this?
>
> I suspect that would be a largely fruitless effort.

/me wails and hides from the hatred that can only exist between two rival OS 
projects, or maybe editors.

> > Or a tool to patch an OpenBSD executable to mark it as not being
> > NetBSD any
> > more by poking the magic number...
>
> This is probably a better solution.  We could allocate a new a.out
> magic number that said "OpenBSD binary", and then write a small tool
> that adjusted the magic number of a binary appropriately.  This would
> be trivial.
>
> But, as Roland pointed out, we're probably better off bootstrapping
> from a platform which uses a modern executable format, like FreeBSD or
> Linux (which use ELF, just like we do).

Yep, in this case, but for other binary compatability situations?

>          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>

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