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0xcde4c3db | 1 year ago

An interesting quirk of the ISO 9660 standard is that the first sector of the disc is explicitly undefined, in order to accommodate a platform-specific boot sector. I sometimes wonder how many platforms could be accommodated by a single "polyglot" disc image.

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bpye|1 year ago

That feels like the ISO equivalent of Cosmopolitan libc [0].

[0] - https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

hulitu|1 year ago

> The Makefile will download cosmocc automatically.

What can go wrong ?

> It's recommended that you install a systemwide APE Loader. This command requires sudo access to copy the ape command to a system folder and register with binfmt_misc on Linux, for even more performance.

A security nightmare.