[patch] extending/completing brandelf's OS knowledge

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> (from Mon, 25 Jan 2010  
11:16:25 +0200):

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:01:29AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

>> 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.
>
> If static linux binary contains .note.ABI-tag section, and I believe
> that relatively modern binaries do, then brand is autodetected.

Our linuxulator is not restricted to modern binaries. I remember  
reports from people which run or try to run binaries (proprietary  
stuff, all limitations of non-open-source software applies) from linux  
2.2 or even older. It's been a while since I've seen such a report,  
but as it typically just works, I can not tell that we can be sure  
that nobody wants to run binaries which do not fit your definition of  
"relatively modern".

Bye,
Alexander.

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