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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:24:01 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with gzip'd executables 
Message-ID:  <199712142324.PAA00410@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <13250.882133705@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <13250.882133705@critter.freebsd.dk>

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In article <13250.882133705@critter.freebsd.dk>,
Poul-Henning Kamp  <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <199712141959.LAA20309@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
> 
> >Meanwhile, it turns out that the gzipped executable problem was
> >really a bug in imgact_gzip.c.  So I committed a fix for that.
> 
> Actually it was done deliberately that way under the assumption that
> nobody would ever want to touch the a.out header of a running 
> program :-)

Hey, great idea!  Sorry I had to break that clever feature. ;-)

Seriously, though, it is indeed a gross hack for ld.so to peek at the
a.out header in memory.  (I am beaming with pride ...)  I'm going to
back it out again when I get time to commit the emacs port patch, in a
week or two.

John
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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