Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:21:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:21:35 -0500 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk ([195.224.76.132]:15369 "EHLO chiark.greenend.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:21:24 -0500 From: Colin Watson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fs/exec.c and binfmt-xxx in 2.4.14 In-Reply-To: <3BFBDFA5.DDA1CC98@evision-ventures.com> Organization: riva.ucam.org Message-Id: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:21:22 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/