[Elftoolchain-developers] patches for Capsicum support

[Mark J. <ma...@fr...>]

Hi,

Lately I have done some work in FreeBSD to run elftoolchain
utilities in capability mode.  This is part of Capsicum, a software
sandboxing framework in FreeBSD.  The work required relatively few
modifications to the existing code since the utilities do not interact
much with the system beyond opening and closing files.  elfcopy and ar
required more work, and in the process I wrote a handful of small
patches to clean up or refactor the code before doing anything related
to Capsicum.

My hope is to minimize the diffs between upstream ELFToolchain and the
copy in FreeBSD's base system.  I am wondering if there is any interest
here in those clean-up patches.  In particular, I don't want to spam the
list with patches that have no functional effect unless there is some
willingness to take them.

Thanks,
-Mark