Re: [PATCH] Capabilities, this time in elf section

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
09 Apr 1999 13:51:52 +0200


Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> writes:

|> Hi!
|>
|> Here is second version of capabilities-into-elf patch.
|>
|> This time additional headers are in separate elf section (you can add
|> it using objcopy --add-section). This section has to have special
|> code (0xca, you have to do this via hex-editor :-) and contains custom
|> header.

Such things are better to be put in a PT_NOTE segment. An executable is
not required to contain a section table. And please do *not* change the
header identification.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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