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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF
Date: 23 Dec 1995 01:20:54 -0800
Organization: Fluffiness is the true Tao
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Message-ID: <4bghlm$7q3@pell.pell.chi.il.us>
References: <4avq5m$7rk@complete.org>
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In article <4avq5m$7rk@complete.org>,
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>Can somebody please tell me what ELF stands for, what it is, and why it is
>beneficial?
>
>I keep seeing this mentioned, esp. in the FreeBSD vs. Linux wars. I don't
>know what it is.
It's a different executable format, to bite us Linux users who
have foolishly kept old binaries around. It's supposed to make
creating mountains of shared libraries easy, and this Linux user
hopes that FreeBSD won't convert to it because easy to make shared
libraries may lead to a MS-Windows like proliferation of them.
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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