In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote: > Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb >> A similar function exists on Linux too. But even if a file has the >> right file format, if it does not have the execute bit set, won't run. >> And you could set that bit on a JPG image too - and nothing good would >> happen, I presume. > > Really? I don't think so. Afaik on Linux executable binary files need an > ELF header.
There are other executable loaders for `a.out` and `COFF` in the kernel, and with the `binfmt_misc` module you can make anything with a "magic" header executable, including Python scripts/bytecode and even JPEG images. http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
