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SubjectRe: binfmt question
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 jani@virtualro.ic.ro wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is every process supposed to have a valid binary format?
> (binfmt field !=NULL in it's task_struct).I hope so.
>

No, incorrect. You can have a kernel thread with binfmt == NULL, see

# gdb -q vmlinux /proc/kcore
Core was generated by `auto BOOT_IMAGE=240-test11 ro root=302
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-test11'.
#0 0x0 in ?? ()
(gdb) p ((((2) >> 8) ^ (2)) & (1024 - 1))
$1 = 2
(gdb) p pidhash[2]->comm
$2 = "eventd\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"
(gdb) p pidhash[2]->binfmt
$3 = (struct linux_binfmt *) 0x0

Regards,
Tigran

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