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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Executing binaries on new filesystem
Date: 17 Nov 2001 17:08:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1n11l7xf4.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011117221821.66121.qmail@web14809.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011117221821.66121.qmail@web14809.mail.yahoo.com>

Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've written a modest filesystem for fun, it works
> pretty ok, but when I try to execute binaries from it,
> bash says "cannot execute binary file" ... If I copy
> the same binary elsewhere, it executes perfectly.
> 
> Does anybody have any clue ?

A classic problem is that the filesystem doesn't support
mmap.  But with more recent kernels I think it would but
hard not too...

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-18  0:27 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 [this message]
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
2001-11-20  9:34     ` Terje Eggestad
2001-11-28  1:43       ` Rock Gordon

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