Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:31:08 +0100 | From | Heinz-Ado Arnolds <> | Subject | Re: fs/exec.c and binfmt-xxx in 2.4.14 |
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Martin Dalecki wrote: > > Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote: > > > > Hi Linus, Hi Alan, Hi all, > > > > I have a problem with loading modules for binary formats. The > > reason for this problem shows up in fs/exec.c search_binary_handler(). > > > > Starting with linux-2.1.23 (and up to 2.4.14) there was a change > > in the format and offset of printing the magic number for requesting > > a handler module. Up to 2.1.22 the statement > > That is a time span of several years during which nobody realized > there was a problem with this. Therefore I would rather > request for removal of the whole binfmt-misc stuff (which is ugly > anyway) > rather then "fixing it" ;-)
Not really. I asked for this problem back in 1999 but didn't get any satisfying response. Since that time me and a lot of my friends are applying this patch to every new kernel we install. For me and many other the binfmt interface is a great tool and by far not ugly stuff.
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