From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs/exec.c and binfmt-xxx in 2.4.14
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:21:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E166tn8-00066U-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFBDFA5.DDA1CC98@evision-ventures.com>
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.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-21 16:58 Heinz-Ado Arnolds
2001-11-21 17:08 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-21 17:31 ` Heinz-Ado Arnolds
2001-11-22 13:21 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2001-11-21 20:14 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-11-22 11:47 ` Heinz-Ado Arnolds
2001-11-22 12:43 ` Richard Guenther
2001-11-22 13:31 ` Andreas Schwab
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