On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:35:50PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > > Also, FreeBSD (and possibly NetBSD as well) uses the ELF OSABI field to > mark > > it's binaries. > > The GNU/Hurd does it as well. > > > hmm, last i looked hurd used an ELF note, like NetBSD.
Yes, sorry, I thought that was he meant (and he did :). I did not even know about a special OSABI field. ulysses:/tmp/x# objdump -s -j .note.ABI-tag /bin/bash /bin/bash: file format elf32-i386 Contents of section .note.ABI-tag: 8048108 04000000 10000000 01000000 474e5500 ............GNU. 8048118 00000000 02000000 00000000 1e000000 ................ ulysses:/tmp/x# objdump -s -j .note.ABI-tag /gnu/bin/bash /gnu/bin/bash: file format elf32-i386 Contents of section .note.ABI-tag: 8048100 04000000 10000000 01000000 474e5500 ............GNU. 8048110 01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de