Re: FAT binaries and Linux

Richard Guenther (zxmpm11@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:34:23 +0200 (METDST)

On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> 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.
This is a standard ELF-feature (at least the arch recognition).
Dunno, if there is a _standard_ way to encode the OS into the file
(of course there is _a_ way...)

Richard.

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