In article <gIOdnRNp_KHqVrXfRVn-2w@comcast.com>,
Henry Townsend <henry.townsend@not.here> writes:
> Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
>> Historical artefact of the "common Unix x86 ABI".
>
> Thank you Casper and Bart. Two little followon questions if you don't mind:
>
> 1. Do you know of a way for a process to ask at runtime what its
> _STAT_VER value is? (Or if _STAT_VER will never change again that's a
> solution too). I understand the point of _STAT_VER is that each program
> knows what version of stat to request from the kernel. But although each
> program has this information compiled in, there seems to be no way for
> it tell anyone else.
>
> 2. Is the referenced x86 ABI documented somewhere online? Google didn't
> turn up anything useful.
>

For me, using

svr4 abi x86

it found

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/

which listed (copies of) a number of docs, one or more of which might
be what you want. Unfortunately, I didn't see any more "official" looking
source for those docs.

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