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Subject: Re: ELF binary type "0" not known.
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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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