Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Jens-Uwe Mager (jum@anubis.han.de)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:24:51 GMT


In article
<mng==Pine.LNX.3.93.980913190142.1203C-100000@kjahds.kjahds.com>, Kenneth
Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> wrote:

> This approach has one useful (sorta) side-effect: PowerPC code is stored
> in the data fork, and 68K code is stored in the resource fork, so that
> "fat" binaries are easy to make.

Fat binaries are also very easily possible by storing multiple code
fragments in the data fork (kinda like different ELF sections for you ELF
folks). I am at a loss to explain why they stored the description of what
is in the data fork in resource, though (the cfrg resource, kinda like an
ELF header).

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Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>

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