Messages in this thread |  | | From | Colin Watson <> | Subject | Re: fs/exec.c and binfmt-xxx in 2.4.14 | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:21:22 +0000 |
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In article <3BFBDFA5.DDA1CC98@evision-ventures.com>, Martin Dalecki wrote: >Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote: >> 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" ;-)
This report has nothing to do with binfmt_misc - it's in the main binfmt code.
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