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Re: Multiarch interpreter names for traditional architectures


On 02/04/2018 05:25 PM, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
Multiarch systems allow to run programs from other architectures. ELF
executables for traditional architectures depend on interpreter names
that may conflict with each other. For instance, it is complicated to
run alpha programs on x86 systems.

Not if the kernel invokes the right emulator. Why isn't it possible to arrange for that?

Considering this is an ABI break basically everywhere, you need to provide very good justification for doing this.

Thanks,
Florian


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