cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson) (06/28/90)
From article <12917@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski): > There is a new exec module in the V.4 kernel that allows for different > types of exec file formats. This is how coff, elf, and shell script > execs are handled in the kernel, now. To implement a new exec file > format one chooses a suitable magic number, links in a few routines of > routines [maybe FOOexec and FOOcore], updates the appropriate > structure array [execsw], and then figures out what they broke. :-) Just to pick nits :-), the linking of modules and the creation of execsw[] is all done automatically by cunix(1M). You do however have to update the system file to tell cunix to include your new exec module in the kernel. -- Charles. {sun, ucbvax, pyramid, uunet}!unisoft!cander