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To: Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Executing binaries on new filesystem
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Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've written a modest filesystem for fun, it works
> pretty ok, but when I try to execute binaries from it,
> bash says "cannot execute binary file" ... If I copy
> the same binary elsewhere, it executes perfectly.
> 
> Does anybody have any clue ?

A classic problem is that the filesystem doesn't support
mmap.  But with more recent kernels I think it would but
hard not too...

Eric
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