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    SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking
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    Le ven 09/01/2004 à 21:41, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
    > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
    > > I think this points to an 'issue', if we're going to increase the checks
    > > in the ELF-loader (and thus increase the size of the minimal valid ELF
    > > file we can load, thus effectively 'bloating' (lol) some programs) we
    > > should probably allow some sort of direct binary executable files [i.e.
    > > header 'XBIN386\0' followed by Read/Execute binary code to execute by
    >
    > Like binfmt_flat? :)

    .. or even zflat. Not that I'm proud of it, but it can effectively
    manage to produce rather compact executables :)

    Xav

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