Re: Executing binaries on new filesystem

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
17 Nov 2001 17:08:47 -0700


Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've written a modest filesystem for fun, it works
> pretty ok, but when I try to execute binaries from it,
> bash says "cannot execute binary file" ... If I copy
> the same binary elsewhere, it executes perfectly.
>
> Does anybody have any clue ?

A classic problem is that the filesystem doesn't support
mmap. But with more recent kernels I think it would but
hard not too...

Eric
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