Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 11:15:55 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 09:53:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > With ELF notes, there's not a way in hell I do that without compiling up > my own program. That may be acceptable to engineers, but it sure as hell > doesn't make sense, and it sure isn't very friendly.
Not to be construed with defending the scheme too much, cause I'm not sure I like it, but ...
It is quite possible to write a tool to diddle the notes in an existing executable. The PT_NOTE is not a loaded header, and so can be put space available anywhere in the image.
r~
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