Subject: Re: Per-process personalities in emulations
To: None <niklas@appli.se, tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/10/1995 14:09:54
>I hope I haven't confused too many people of my (ab)use of the term
>"exec package". When UTSLing, I found out that what I call exec
>package and what it in reality is doesn't quite agree. So I have to
>invent another term for my use. Basically it's rather an extension to
>the execsw (for now I've only needed a name field). Anyway my
>intention is to be able to tell exec to use the ELF loading code and
>the SVR4 emulation, or ELF & Linux, or even ELF & NetBSD... So it's
>perhaps better to call it "load package" or something similar. What
>do you think? Is there perhaps a good term already in use?
>
>PS For you who wonder what an "exec package" really is, it's a per
> process structure containing info on the specific executable being
> executed. It is a transient thing dropped as soon as we're up and
> running the new binary.
What else is in there other than the executable format (e.g. ELF)? I
would think that you could get that directly from the binary.
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