On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > 1) Can a native binary dlopen a Linux ELF GL, yes or no?
>
> No. The linux compatbility is through the image activator. The syscalls
> have to be translated, otherwise if you were running as root and loaded a
> linux lib into a freebsd binary, then that lib called fcntl(), your system
> would reboot :)
Acutally you should have said "YES", with a limitation that the Linux
object cannot make syscalls. On the Alpha we use a Linux library with
the Compaq ccc comiler.
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