• hallettj@leminal.space
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    9 days ago

    Interesting! I didn’t realize the extent to which an ELF is a little database. It does seem worthwhile reexamine our formats from time to time. And yeah, since Nix relies on patching ELFs maybe a better tool for that would avoid some headaches.

    I’m a little unclear of the idea of SELF executables as closures. If we want to avoid duplication of libraries on disk, would that require the one-userland idea? How would a NixOS setup work with all binaries packed into one SELF file?