Wim Vandeputte writes:
> 
> > library, or seg fault, or what have you.) There is no way
> > that I have found to identify that a binary belongs to a 
> > particular os. Is there actually some magic that isn't in
> 
> What about 'file' ?
> 
> 

file command output running under linux:

netbsd binary
/net/js8/bin/ed: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped
/net/js8/usr/bin/vi: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped

linux binary
/bin/ed: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped
/usr/bin/vi: symbolic link to ../../bin/vim
/bin/vim: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped



file command output running under NetBSD

netbsd binary
/bin/ed: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, statically linked, stripped
/usr/bin/vi: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

linux binary
/home/root/ed: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/home/root/vim: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

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