Re: FAT binaries and Linux

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:25:12 -0400 (EDT)


Richard Guenther writes:

> The fat binary will have to be recognized by a magic that
> actually differs from normal elf executables!

Of somewhat related interest:

There is a BSD (maybe OpenBSD) that uses a modified ELF to
make it easy to recognize what architecture and OS the
executable is for. That may be a better format.
(it can share binfmt_elf as the loader)