Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:09:33 -0600 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Re: 2G file size limitation question |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It could also be a 32-bit "page" offset, at which time you have 44 bits > covered, but then you couldn't do 1kB-aligned file mappings any more > (and those are used by some older binary formats).
By that time, the NMAGIC format will be so scarce that you could give up demand-loading it and load it all into memory like OMAGIC loading. They would still work, they would just load a little more slowly.
Hmm, I just looked in fs/binfmt_aout.c and the Sparc people have already done just that.
Michael Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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