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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Catching References to address 0 Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:48:52 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc., UC Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <20afjk$6h3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1vid0k$p4n@agate.berkeley.edu> <CGD.93Jun14130922@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu I agree about the location assignment for the base, it is short sighted. However, a.out format has endless numbers of limitations. Formats like ELF have addressed them. Why not solve them with a single format change. Execve() can be made blindingly fast for a single format, and with cleverness export multiple formats to a user mode program. This seems like a more productive direction, as then others can follow along, extending the system without comprimising kernel integrety. Yet it is more of a challenge, don't you think? Bill.