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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: porting Linux apps to BSD !
Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:59:16 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 2.1-current Usenet Site
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In article <41epcd$bn4@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> Ummm, no.
> 
> I've tested all of the following programs on a Linux 1.2.13 a.out 

Well, it  depends  on whether you're using   early ELF or  not... The first
version  of ELF ld.so  was not unmapping  page 0 so  a NULL pointer was not
generating SEGV. I'm told it is or will be fixed. 

[ Cc: to Nick ]
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