Re: PaX bad tags error?

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

In article <rmia9nzq7tn.fsf%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost>,
Greg Troxel  <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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>I have a binary from 2004 (that works fine under -6; ldd says:
>        -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
>        -lgcc_s.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>        -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
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>but on running it I get:
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>/home/gdt/bin/i386-NetBSD/[foo]: bad tag 1: [8 4, 0 4, 01.0  PaX]
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>Is this a clue that pax expects elf notes in a place that didn't use to
>be initialized?  Somthing else?

Perhaps the binary was created during the transitional period before
PaX tags got their own note type. This looks like a type 1 note with
a PaX name. What does file say?

christos