[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:20:16 -0600
> >
> >Does anyone think that it would be of value to try to
> >get a list of symbols(nm) in the kernel and library files
> >or is this getting to close to reverse engineering for
> >some of you?
> >
> >And going even further, has anyone tried to disassemble
> >the files? (The kernel, BTW, yields little information,
> >at least to my novice eyes.)
> >
> >--
> >timothy.covell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have. I don't know about other countries, but US law allows for
> reverse
> engineering for compatibility. Perusing the symbol table has proved
> very
> interesting in understanding the servers. objdump works nicely for
> this task.
> While we are allowed to RE, we are, repeat, *NOT* allowed to
> distribute such
> listings. In some instances, it will prove almost necessary, such as
> for
> supporting the registrar, which, BTW is visible only by a ps command
> from the
> Terminal and is not mentioned in the BeBook at all and only in a
> listing of
> the Bootscript in the Be Newsletters.
The registrar manages lists of app sigs and app launch by sig. That's
about it. Try killing it and see what's busted; that's an informative,
if not elegant, way of figuring out what it does.
-Nathan
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