On Mon, 28 May 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi there, > > My friend has made an application that uses a shared library which is > not yet ported to OpenBSD (xereces-c). We have been trying to run it > on OpenBSD using linux-compat. I know this is all set up properly as I > use opera a lot. > > We have a static binary for the correct arch: > $ file a.out > a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, for > GNU/Linux 2.6.9, statically linked, not stripped > $ uname -a > OpenBSD puff.langash.lan 4.1 GENERIC#1435 i386 > $ ldd a.out > a.out: > ldd: a.out: not a dynamic executable > > It is executable: > $ ls -al | grep a.out > -rwxrwxrwx 1 didi didi 1176578 May 27 23:48 a.out > > So we should be able to run it: > $ ./a.out > ksh: ./a.out: Operation not permitted > $ exec a.out > ksh: a.out: Operation not permitted > > So I try as root (I know I shouldnt have to): > # whoami > root > # ./a.out > ksh: ./a.out: Operation not permitted > # exec a.out > ksh: a.out: not found > $ whoami > edd > > Notice how it logged my root shell out?!?!
That's completely normal behaviour of exec. See man ksh. -Otto