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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes]
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:53:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215125335.GB4551@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D571C4CB-3D52-446C-802E-024C4C333562@mac.com>

Hi!

> So I guess all I have to do is:
>   (A)  Write a bunch of new syscall handlers taking 
>   arguments of the  same types as the Darwin syscall 
> handlers,
>   (B)  Figure out how to switch tables depending on the 
>   "syscall  personality" of "current"
>   (C)  Figure out how to set the "syscall personality" 
>   of "current"  from my Mach-O binary format module.
> 
> (A) seems fairly straightforward, if unusually tedious 
> and error- prone, but I'm totally in the dark for (B) 
> and (C).  Any help would  be much appreciated.

try strace osx_binary. If syscall interface is similar enough, perhaps
it is possible to do it with ptrace() :-).
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-16  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11 15:11 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 16:33 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 16:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:04       ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:18         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:29             ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 18:43               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:55                 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:11                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:04                     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-12  0:05                       ` David Miller
2006-12-12  9:10                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-11 19:20                 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:36                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:42                     ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:37                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 19:56                   ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:05                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:09                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:21                       ` Greg KH
2006-12-11 20:16                     ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:15                   ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-11 20:23                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 21:16                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-11 18:49             ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-12 12:23             ` Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes] Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 16:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 17:56                 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 18:20                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:34                     ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 22:38                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12 22:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:21                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 12:53                   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-12-11 17:50     ` 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 17:57       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:00         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:08           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:14             ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:03               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 19:37               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 18:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:40         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 19:34     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 21:15     ` H. Peter Anvin

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