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Re:Single binary executable packages by teakettle42 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:45AM (#30529359)
BeOS/Haiku appends assets to the end of the ELF file with a ToC and some easy-to-use APIs for accessing them.

I always wish that’d taken off.

I guess AppImage isn’t dissimilar in that it appends a squashfs image to be mounted with FUSE.

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Re:Single binary executable packages by immibis on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:44PM (#30530200)
Windows also does this. Linux doesn't, preferring to KISS because with demand paging there's really no reason you can't just put them in your rodata section.
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