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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: NetBSD executable format (was Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound) Date: 10 Oct 1993 04:05:10 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 11 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Oct10000511@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <28qme0$bgo@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <33223@ksr.com> <294plg$c9e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCELqH6.2A7@netcom.com> <29507g$ci5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 9 Oct 1993 00:22:08 GMT Contrary to Nate's supposed facts, the executable format in NetBSD 0.8 was exactly the same as 386BSD 0.1. The DB library was also so the same. In fact, NetBSD 0.8 was 100% binary compatible with 386BSD 0.1, including allowing one to run buggy programs that overwrote the kernel stack and other nasty things. (I'm pretty sure FreeBSD still allows that.) For a more detailed discussion of NetBSD 0.9 executables formats, see the FAQ.