Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Vivek, > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:10:56 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> Another odd thing is that "file vmlinux.bin" shows following. >> >> vmlinux.bin: Sendmail frozen configuration - version > \015\024\322\216\356\222X\2306\032H\220\303\270\006\007\003 >> >> I am not sure what does it mean. I had expected it to be a data blob. >> >> "vmlinux.bin: data" > > The file command uses heuristics to attempt to identify files. Here a > random sequence of bytes was simply misinterpreted as something > completely different. You can tell from the version string which is > totally broken. So, "file" could be improved to avoid this false > positive, but that's about it. > > Now, what's still relevant is that my vmlinux.bin starts with a > binary sequence which differs from all other vmlinux.bin files around. > So it's a hint that it is corrupted, although a deeper analysis will be > required to figure out how and why.
A simple analysis says vmlinux.bin is created by the linker. So we can probably look at why vmlinux.bin gets generated strangely. I know I touched that path a little bit in my patch. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
