Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-08 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 07:14:27PM -0500, Vineet Joglekar wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 1 more interesting observation regarding my executable file problem. > > > > If I copy an executable say "prac" from ext2 fs to my encrypted fs as prac1, > prac1 doesnt run on the encrypted fs. but, if I ma

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-08 Thread Vineet Joglekar
--- On Sun 02/06, Vineet Joglekar < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Vineet Joglekar [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:41:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Problem in accessing

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-07 Thread Vineet Joglekar
TECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:31:24 + Subject: Re: Problem in accessing executable files Vineet Joglekar wrote:> Thanks for suggesting the single / few bytes encryption test. I tried> doing that, but in vain. Maybe I am

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-07 Thread Glynn Clements
Vineet Joglekar wrote: > Thanks for suggesting the single / few bytes encryption test. I tried > doing that, but in vain. Maybe I am going wrong somewhere else. I'm pretty sure that mmap'ed access doesn't go through do_generic_file_read(). Executable files (programs and shared libraries) are no

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-06 Thread Vineet Joglekar
wrote: From: John T. Williams [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:37:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Problem in accessing executable files This is just a thought.Text files are better ab

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-01 Thread John T. Williams
This is just a thought. Text files are better able to handle small faults. ie an extra space or characters or even an unreadable piece of data might not cause the file to become unreadable by most text editors. Binary files aren't as flexible. Every bit could be an instruction to the processor an