Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanitychecking

[Xavier Bestel]

Le sam 10/01/2004 à 03:27, Maciej Zenczykowski a écrit :
> > > Like binfmt_flat? :)
> > 
> > .. or even zflat. Not that I'm proud of it, but it can effectively
> > manage to produce rather compact executables :)
> 
> Probably one of those two, is this something new?  Never heard of 
> either... :) Specs? Min bin file size?  If this (one of these) is 
> guaranteed to be in any new kernel (i.e. can't be configed out like a.out) 
> then that would be enough (assuming this flat is slim file size wise).

It can be configured out, of course, and is generally not configured for
you regular desktop. It comes from the embedded world (uCLinux) where
space on primary storage (generally flash) is one of the big costs. The
tools to generate/manipulate it are in the uCLinux distro.

	Xav

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