Re: [RFC] module: signature infrastructure

[David Howells]

Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Or let the magic string as the last thing in the module and store the
> signature length, too. In this case no scanning is needed

Indeed.  This is the better way.

The main problem is rendering the length from a shell script.  It's trivial to
do as ASCII (there's a printf program), but a pain to render to binary.  I'm
sure it can be done with perl or python without the need to compile anything.

David
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