On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:21:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > /me ponders.. doesn't the binfmt engine cruft need the args in place in > order to execute? Needs to modify them in case #! and a few other. But that's generally a matter of "drop argv[0], push several arguments in its place" > That is, IIRC the problem is that you need to have the argc/env in place > for the binfmt engine thing, and need to have ran the binfmt engine > thing before you know the personality. > > As to your idea, if that were feasible we could do without the copy and > simply steal the pages directly from the old mm. *raised brows* Old mm may bloody well be still shared, so I'd be vary of trying that - there's a lot of nasty surprises we could get on that way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
