Re: i486 emu in mainline?

Alan Cox
2004-05-25T13:49:38Z

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:36:52AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > No. The LD_PRELOAD also hooks the signal setting functions. This really is
> > not rocket science at all.
>
> But works only on dynamically linkes executables, and only on those that
> don't do system calls on their own, right?

If it is static linked to glibc or libc5 then you have the source or the
bits to relink it.

You can build an app to deliberately break software emulation, but that goes
for kernel mode too and isn't the problem you *actually* want to solve