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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: FAT binaries and Linux
From:       Richard Guenther <zxmpm11 () student ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1997-09-18 11:34:23
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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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