Re: fs/exec.c and binfmt-xxx in 2.4.14

Andreas Ferber (aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:14:33 +0100

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:58:26PM +0100, Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote:
>
> When i now try to start an older binary in a.out format, which has a
> magic number of 0x010b0064, it is translated with the 'new' code to a
> request for "binfmt-0064" instead of "binfmt-267" as expected and
> properly handled by modprobe.

Then add

alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout

to /etc/modules.conf. Simple, isn't it?

Andreas

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