Re: [patch] 2.3.18ac10 binfmt_a.out fixes

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:19:41 +0200

On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:11:53AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> >Agreed. I have a better fix for this (a new function to do both the do_brk
> >and read_exec). I'm updating it for 2.3.20 right now.
>
> For 2.2.x I would go with the obviously right fix.

Yes. For 2.3.x, I want to do this larger update though -- there are
a lot of error checks missing and a lot of misbehaviour when we do get
errors that should be fixed.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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