From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@cela.pl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073728341.6189.182.camel@nomade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401100325320.1739-100000@gaia.cela.pl>
Le sam 10/01/2004 à 03:27, Maciej Zenczykowski a écrit :
> > > Like binfmt_flat? :)
> >
> > .. or even zflat. Not that I'm proud of it, but it can effectively
> > manage to produce rather compact executables :)
>
> Probably one of those two, is this something new? Never heard of
> either... :) Specs? Min bin file size? If this (one of these) is
> guaranteed to be in any new kernel (i.e. can't be configed out like a.out)
> then that would be enough (assuming this flat is slim file size wise).
It can be configured out, of course, and is generally not configured for
you regular desktop. It comes from the embedded world (uCLinux) where
space on primary storage (generally flash) is one of the big costs. The
tools to generate/manipulate it are in the uCLinux distro.
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 2:19 [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 2:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 3:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-09 3:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 20:20 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-09 20:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-10 0:27 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-10 2:27 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10 9:52 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-01-10 13:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 22:38 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10 22:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 14:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-01-22 19:24 ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanitychecking Adrian Bunk
2004-01-09 3:36 ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 4:15 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-09 10:28 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-09 10:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 18:08 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-09 18:25 ` Jesper Juhl
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