Bug 137855
| Summary: | ia32el cannot execute non-readable binaries | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Yoav Zach <yoav.zach> |
| Component: | ia32el | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | grgustaf, jturner |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-11 18:14:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 135876 | ||
Should be fixed in ia32el-1.1-8. Fix confirmed with ia32el-1.1-9. |
Description of problem: ia32el cannot execute non-readable binaries. to fix that - please change the activation script: the string passed to the kernel for registering ia32el as the translator of elf32 binaries currently ends with ":P". adding the flag C (":PC") will tell the kernel to open the binary for ia32el and thus fix the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ia32el-1.1-4 How reproducible: consistently Steps to Reproduce: put the simplest 32 bit binary in a local directory (not nfs), change its permissions to be non-readable and try to execute it. the process will fail silently. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: