maintainers.
After we established our branding method of writing upto 8 characters of
the OS name into the ELF header in the padding; the Binutils maintainers
and/or SCO (as USL) decided that instead the ELF header should grow two new
fields -- EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION. Each of these are an 8-bit unsigned
integer. SCO has assigned official values for the EI_OSABI field. In
addition to this, the Binutils maintainers and NetBSD decided that a better
ELF branding method was to include ABI information in a ".note" ELF
section.
With this set of changes, we will now create ELF binaries branded using
both "official" methods. Due to the complexity of adding a section to a
binary, binaries branded with ``brandelf'' will only brand using the
EI_OSABI method. Also due to the complexity of pulling a section out of an
ELF file vs. poking around in the ELF header, our image activator only
looks at the EI_OSABI header field.
Note that a new kernel can still properly load old binaries except for
Linux static binaries branded in our old method.
*
* For a short period of time, ``ld'' will also brand ELF binaries
* using our old method. This is so people can still use kernel.old
* with a new world. This support will be removed before 5.0-RELEASE,
* and may not last anywhere upto the actual release. My expiration
* time for this is about 6mo.
*
of using file mtimes could result in chpasss(1) erroneously
detecting that no changes were made for non-interactive edits.
PR: 4238
Reported by: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@noc.dfn.de>
Submitted by: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
It is not default because it's an expensive option by nature, making the
search take 2-3 times as long.
PR: 17555
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
input even if the '-n' flag to rsh is used. The write side of the
socket should be closed to allow the remote process to see EOF.
Submitted by: Brad Chisholm <sasblc@unx.sas.com>
pased a year > 99. This change fixes the conversion of 2-digit years
into tm_year format.
This change is differs from the OpenBSD fix because of differences
in our assign_date().
PR: 15872
Reported by: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@home.com>
Submitted by: "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@dor.zaural.ru>
Obtained from: OpenBSD
