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SubjectRe: 2G file size limitation question
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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