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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF? Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:28:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5k5p5a$gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cmott-2004971630470001@192.168.0.5> <5jooj9$9c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33609855.6725@desy.de> <29577CEB029DEE7D.15EB282B5ACE579C.9F4A01791A26A597@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3363BCCC.3DF5@desy.de> <87hggsm9d8.fsf@altair.franken.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39981 Matthias Buelow <token@altair.franken.de> wrote: > > PS: I still haven't heard any answer to the question when the ELF > > format is going to become default one in FreeBSD... > > I hope this won't be an issue in the next time. It will be, but we have to learn from Linux's mistake. > FreeBSD's qmagic is good, it is much better than Linux a.out so there's > not really a need for going ELF. You should at least read Olaf's article in full before stating this, not just his p.s. only. He gave one of the few very good reasons where a.out is indeed not up to the task. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)