exec doesn't respect all_sects_writable

Adam Lackorzynski adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Wed Aug 9 16:45:57 CEST 2006


On Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 14:55:28 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> I wanted to run a current L4Linux using the CVS version of DROPS and got 
> a page fault when the Linux code is self-modified. I was told to use the 
> option all_sects_writable for the loader, but this apparently does not 
> work when not using ldso.
> 
> Exec seems to ignore this option and maps in the L4Linux space read 
> only. This looks like a bug to me.

Yes, this is not implemented in exec. I consider exec obsolete, so
please just use ldso.




Adam
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