Re: Strang PaX messages while running linux programs

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20100608172433.GD2129%arresum.veego.de@localhost>,
Bernd Ernesti  <current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I see the following messages while installing some linux packages via pkgsrc:
>
>e.g.
>
>/usr/pkg/emul/linux/sbin/ldconfig: bad tag 1: [4 4, 16 4,  GNU  PaX]
>/usr/pkg/emul/linux/sbin/ldconfig: unknown note type 1163097427
>
>That is not limited to ldconfig:
>
>jre1.6.0_20/bin/unpack200: bad tag 1: [4 4, 16 4,  GNU  PaX]
>jre1.6.0_20/bin/unpack200: bad tag 1: [8 4, 0 4, 01.0  PaX]
>jre1.6.0_20/bin/java: bad tag 1: [4 4, 16 4,  GNU  PaX]
>jre1.6.0_20/bin/java: bad tag 1: [8 4, 0 4, 01.0  PaX]
>
>Could it be that our PaX support needs some changes to stop this?

That is DIAGNOSTIC output. It should not affect functionality, but
yes, we should add Linux PaX note recognition to our code and DTRT
for the binary.

christos
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