Talk:Executable and Linkable Format: Difference between revisions

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Imagine a file without a file extension, how can an operating system know whether this file is an ELF executable or not? --[[User:Abdull|Abdull]] 16:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 
: [[Magic number (programming)|Magic number]]s. See [http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/oldusers/rno/Computing/File_magic.html here]. [[User:Thumperward|Chris Cunningham]] 16:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)