[patch] extending/completing brandelf's OS knowledge

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> (from Sun, 24 Jan 2010  
21:29:42 -0800 (PST)):

> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>
>> I do not see a need for such rudimentary ELF editor in the base at all.
>
> So, perhaps it's time to move brandelf out of the base? And if so,  
> perhaps Alexander's contribution could be incorporated into a port  
> for it?

Personally I do not see a reason why his work can not go into the base  
system. From a feature point of view the patch is giving brandelf a  
little bit more freedom what it is allowed to change. When I look at  
what I do/did with various tools in FreeBSD which where not intended  
to be used like this but where useful in some cases, I do not think we  
should enforce the policy to allow only stuff in brandelf which we are  
able to emulate.

>> After the work of dchagin@/bz@, brandelf is needed only for the corner
>> cases, if at all.
>
> Hmm, I was fooling around with some linux'y stuff the other day and  
> needed to brandelf it (don't remember what, obviously wasn't that  
> important). :)
> If this happens again in the future, is it worth reporting  
> somewhere? (-emulation@ ?)

If it was to brandelf a static linux executable so that the FreeBSD  
system does not reboot when executing the static linux executable,  
then I would say it does not need to be reported and we still need  
brandelf in the base system.

If someone says that exactly this case has been fixed recently: it  
would be great to hear on emulation@ about cases where brandelf is  
still needed.

Bye,
Alexander.

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