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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:36:57 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ELF binary type "0" not known.
Message-ID:  <200509170036.58660.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050916144653.GG2813@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0509161008460.17155-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <200509162357.22204.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050916144653.GG2813@straylight.m.ringlet.net>

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On Saturday 17 September 2005 00:16, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > Wow that's weird..
> > I wonder why that happens?
>
> What is weird?  The fact that if linux.ko is not loaded, the kernel
> does not know what to do with an unknown ELF binary type? :)

I misread that as having linprocfs loaded :)

> What I find weird is the fact that as soon as linux.ko is loaded,
> the kernel "learns" to treat type 0 binaries as type 3; but this is
> probably because Daniel Eischen has at some earlier time set
> the kern.fallback_elf_brand sysctl to 3.

Yes that is pretty odd..

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