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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:21:46 +0300
From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Cc: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>,
Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define the EF_AS_NO_RANDOM e_flag bit
At Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:16:12 -0500,
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > Should we introduce per-arch asm/elf.h files to hold the relevant flag definitions then?
>
> On some architectures there are no bits left. On others you'd need to go
> through whomever maintains the relevant psABI to get a bit officially
> allocated. Really, it is very bad idea to use e_flags for this.
How does one find the relevant maintainers?
Even just the specs are harder to find in the authoritative location,
given the OSDL and FSG merge: the psabi documents at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/
all 404...
> If all you care about is running setuid LISP programs, you'd much better put
> your energy into fixing the buggy ELF dumper in it.
>
> Jakub
regards, Samium Gromoff
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