Multiarch interpreter names for traditional architectures

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Feb 5 07:33:00 GMT 2018


On 02/04/2018 07:16 PM, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
> El dg 04 de 02 de 2018 a les 18:19 +0100, Florian Weimer va escriure:
>> Not if the kernel invokes the right emulator.  Why isn't it possible to
>> arrange for that?
> It is possible, but complicated. In the example, kernel starts the alpha
> emulator, then the emulator looks for the interpreter requested by the
> program. A prepared system does not ship the traditional alpha/x86
> interpreter, then the emulator looks for the alpha multiarch
> interpreter. Otherwise, if the traditional x86 interpreter is installed,
> the user must tell the alpha emulator to ignore that interpreter.

Please rephrase that in a way which separates what happens today from 
what should happen in the future.  It's hard to tell what you are proposing.

Currently, the kernel maps both the ELF interpreter and the executable. 
Do you intend to change that?

Thanks,
Florian



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