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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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