Subject: Re: An annoying failure I've seen a lot of.
To: None <brad@anduin.eldar.org, burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
From: James Graham <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/27/1996 09:15:09
<burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com> sez:
#
# Whenever I try to run an ELF or COFF binary, I get the following error:
#
# ./linux.x86: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
#
Brad Spencer sez:
#
# Hello... exec_elf.c thinks that it is a SVR4 Elf binary. Either
# remove COMPAT_SVR4 from your kernel or rearrange the order of the Elf
# test.
This makes no sense at all. If it thinks it's an SVR4 ELF binary,
why the hell is it handing it over to /bin/sh, then?
I'd expect a ENOSYS or SIGILL+core to happen before then.
--*greywolf;