[Toybox] [PATCH] Distinguish 32- and 64-bit variants in file(1) for x32.

Josiah Worcester josiahw at gmail.com
Mon Feb 29 13:22:14 PST 2016


On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:01 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 02/29/2016 10:51 AM, enh wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >>> as far as i know, there's only one. i've never come across another,
> >>> even on Mac OS.
> >>
> >> Wikipedia[citation needed] says OpenBSD has its own,
> >
> > a quick glance at the source suggests that's true. it does look like
> > they use the same names for the subset they support though. (OpenBSD's
> > been a zombie for longer than Aarch64 has existed.)
>
> Indeed, although people trusted it to run OpenSSL and/or OpenSSH for the
> longest time. (I've never been clear on the relationship between those
> projects, other than "not dropbear".)
>

Quick summary of the relationship: OpenSSH is a project of OpenBSD. OpenSSL
is a completely different thing, that OpenSSH happens to depend on.
LibreSSL is OpenBSD's fork of OpenSSL. Yes, the names are confusing. But
that's how it is.
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