From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Matt Stegman <mas9483@ksu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gzipped executables
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010214202220.A304@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0102122251040.24003-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0102122251040.24003-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu>; from Matt Stegman on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:39PM -0600
Hi!
> Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize,
> and execute gzipped executables?
>
> I know I could use binfmt_misc to run a wrapper script:
>
> decompress to /tmp/prog.decompressed
> execute /tmp/prog.decompressed
> rm /tmp/prog.decompressed
>
> But that's not as clean, secure, or fast as the kernel transparently
> decompressing & executing. Is there a better way to do this?
You could do this with uservfs(.sourceforge.net):
ln -s /overlay/path/.../executable.gz#ugz executable
and let uservfs do it for you. It will essentially do what you
described, but it will work on any file.
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-17 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-13 5:09 gzipped executables Matt Stegman
2001-02-13 21:09 ` Mike Castle
2001-02-14 19:22 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2001-02-13 8:40 ketil
2001-02-13 12:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-02-13 13:08 ` Padraig Brady
2001-02-13 13:58 ` Matt Stegman
2001-02-13 14:09 ` Xavier Bestel
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