On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 09:16  AM, Todd T. Fries wrote:

> Do not concern yourself about a.out on i386 on OpenBSD any longer.  
> Post 3.3,
> which is in the final stages of shakedown, i386 is going elf.

Heh, this is quite contrary to what Mr. de Raadt claimed at the last 
USENIX.

> At that point, elf2olf can be used to brand a binary as OpenBSD if 
> there are
> any remaining issues.  This technique works well for static linux 
> binaries that
> get recognized as svr4.

Why does OpenBSD continue to insist on using "OLF" when the technique 
was soundly rejected by the FSF toolchain maintainers?

The recommended technique is to use an ABI tag note.  Linux, FreeBSD, 
and NetBSD use this technique quite successfully.

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