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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:58:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> I am quite sure this is also possible if the binary is emulated by
> the linux-abi modules like my old SCO binaries.

Linux-ABI mmaps binaries if they are page-aligned, otherwise they
are read completly at startup.  Note that Linux-ABI uses the normal
binfmt_elf for foreign ELF binaries, so the above applies only
to COFF and X.out (Microsoft x.out) binaries.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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