On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Kostik, > > 2013/1/7 Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com>: > > I still do remember the buzz about the binary format 0xCAFEBABE, which > > AFAIR gained image activator support on several OSes, to be garbage > > collected. > > Maybe it would then be a good idea then to add some kind of general > purpose remapping imgact? Example: > > /etc/imgacttab: > > cafebabe /usr/local/bin/java > cffaedfe /usr/local/bin/osx_emulator > 4243c0de /usr/bin/lli > > That way we still give people the freedom to play around with mapping > their own executable formats, but don't need to maintain a bunch of > imgacts.
A generic module that could be somewhat customized at runtime to map offset+signature into the shebang path could be a possibility indeed. I strongly prefer to have it as module and not enabled by default. Asking Nathan for writing the thing is too much, IMHO, esp. in the response to the 50-lines hack.
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