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Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules



<maya%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> By the way, isn't that what happens in practice anyway? the only way to
> reach the COMPAT_OTHEROS code is to first exec a binary, which looks for
> an interpreter in /emul/otheros. If one doesn't exist, exec will fail.

Joerg mentionned the statically linked binary. Even for dynamic
binaries, there may also be some code executed in the compat module to
check if it can run the binary.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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