And all of the below are some of the reasons I still love plan 9.
 Simplicity first is a really great way to work (I've learned over the
years).

Dave

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > just curious: which binfmt does Plan9 use ?
> > How are share libraries handled (if they exist at all) ?
>
> a.out(6)
> no shared libraries.
>
> >
> > Inspired by recent discussions @ gentoo-user, I'm thinking a bit
> > how an simple and efficient binfmt could look like. Some key
> > ideas are:
> >
> > * purely runtime information (no debug stuff, etc)
>
> just strip it.
>
> > * everthing's sharable/relocatable module, with strict dependencies
> > * on exec() the process image will be constructed the modules along
> >  the dependency tree (the main program as root)
>
> no shared libraries.
>
> > * each module may have an entry point (main module w/o is allowed,
> >  even if it wouldn't make much sense ;-o), these are called after
> >  relocation, along the dependency tree, from leaf to root.
>
> no modules.
>
>
> --
> - curiosity sKilled the cat
>
>