From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com>
Cc: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Executing binaries on new filesystem
Date: 19 Nov 2001 20:39:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18zd26rgq.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011119163455.11507.qmail@web14804.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011119163455.11507.qmail@web14804.mail.yahoo.com>
Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com> writes:
> All said and done, the file is with correct
> permissions (for that matter any binary that I execute
> on my filesystem has correct permissions). The only
> thing strace tells me is "bad file format". The same
> binary works perfectly elsewhere.
>
> I don't think mmap is the problem; you don't need it
> in order to run binaries ...
Yes you do. Look at all of the calls to do_mmap in binfmt_elf,
binfmt_aout and others. The only case that doesn't use mmap
is old a.out binaries that are not properly aligned so cannot be
mmaped.
Linux implements demand paging in the loading of binaries and
for that you need mmap.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-20 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-17 22:18 Executing binaries on new filesystem Rock Gordon
2001-11-17 22:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-18 0:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-18 0:54 ` Jeff Dike
2001-11-18 15:13 ` Terje Eggestad
2001-11-19 16:34 ` Rock Gordon
2001-11-19 23:45 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-20 3:39 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-11-20 9:34 ` Terje Eggestad
2001-11-28 1:43 ` Rock Gordon
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