Re: [PATCH 5/5] exec: remove the BFD code

2013-08-29 Thread Roland McGrath
Indeed it was a nice idea to be able to execute any format for free, and it worked great for the most trivial format known to man (a.out). But the fantasy that BFD actually adequately encapsulates all the object format details so you don't need to know them is no more true for the loader than it

Re: [PATCH 5/5] exec: remove the BFD code

2013-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, le Thu 15 Aug 2013 18:41:54 +0200, a écrit : This commit removes the parts of the exec server that were once using the Binary File Descriptor library. This seems like a difficult thing to maintain indeed, applied. Thanks, Samuel

[PATCH 5/5] exec: remove the BFD code

2013-08-15 Thread Justus Winter
This commit removes the parts of the exec server that were once using the Binary File Descriptor library. As I understand it, the BFD code stopped working because it uses stdio streams and the glue code for that has never been ported to libio. The code has been #ifdefed out ever since. It may or