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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Cc:        rabtter@aye.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I want to break binary compatibility.
Message-ID:  <199808221802.LAA18964@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808220009.CAA05667@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Aug 22, 98 02:09:03 am"

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Mikael Karpberg writes:
> > What I want to do, if possible is build a uniq system such that binaries
> > from other systems will not run on it and vice versa. Is this possible?
> 
> One simple way could be to just change the "magic number" on the binaries,
> maybe, and disable all linux compat, etc?

And if you do this, set all executables to have mode --x--x--x so they
can't determine what the new magic number is.

-Archie

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