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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