On 19 Dec 1996, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <199612190908.BAA26774@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
> 	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> > There's currently a hueristic used to to detect Linux binaries, by
> > searching for the signature left by GCC.  If that signature is not
> > present, well...
> 
> I suppose that far more people will try to run Linux than Solaris-x86
> binaries. Wouldn't it be better to modify this detection code to
> identify binaries as Linux binaries in such uncertain cases?

How would you determine which binaries were Solaris/SVR4 binaries?

--scott