From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 28 17:58:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21436 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21429 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA00731; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:57:50 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199607290057.TAA00731@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: -T appears to be a can of worms: To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:57:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at Jul 28, 96 07:35:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Yup you're right it was pilot error. I needed to get the code/text/etc. > running up at a high address and thought that this might be possible on > xxxbsd or linux. No dice. I've used other os'es that let you do this, so read > too much into the various man pages. ah well. I got to the needed > capability a different way. > Try mmap'ing the image in. Our a.out format doesn't afford the info for mapping the image with the existing image-activator stuff, but mmaping an image and jumping to it -- must just work. John