Re: [Qemu-devel] linux-user: enabling binfmt P flag

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 29/08/2014 20:01, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> [cc'ing MJT for more distro opinion since I think fundamentally
> the choice we ought to make upstream is "what's not going to
> screw over distros"... Paolo, is there a RedHat QEMU maintainer
> who would have an opinion here?]

There's Cole Robinson.

BTW, Fedora doesn't use the binfmt scripts from QEMU, but does reuse the
binfmt lines.  We'd just add Ps and we'd be fine.

However, the problem is not really for distros.  Packagers just read the
release notes and adjust whatever needs to be adjusted.  The problem is
for people who compile from source and are bit by conflicting binfmt
formats from their distro.

The solution could be to extend binfmt_misc so that it sets two
environment variables BINFMT_MISC_PID and BINFMT_MISC_ORIG_ARGV0.  The
former is set to the pid of the binfmt "interpreter" program, the latter
to the argv[0] value.  Then QEMU can check if BINFMT_MISC_PID matches
getpid() and, if so, trust the BINFMT_MISC_ORIG_ARGV0 value.

Paolo