Re: [Nasm-users] Talk, don't spam

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Frank Kotler wrote:
> 
> That's the option I was looking for. I'll look again. What I've done 
> seems to be asking me for approval after the fact...
> 

That's what "moderation" means...

> On a completely different topic, but still "talk", I'm wondering if you, 
> or someone, can help me. There's an issue come up on alt.lang.asm (yeah, 
> I know...) under the subject "Why is my nasm program killing itself". A 
> guy has got Slackware 12.0 - kernel 2.6.21.5, apparently, and is having 
> apparently good programs being "killed". Looks like they're killing the 
> loader, actually... His disassembly suggests it's not a Nasm or ld 
> problem...
> 
> We saw something in kernels 2.6.10 - 2.6.16 (approximately) where 
> programs without a writeable section last were causing a SIGSEGV in the 
> loader (fs/binfmt_elf.c, IIRC) - original patch threw SIGKILL. I suspect 
> something similar here.

Well, I can't even log into Usenet at this time, it seems.

	-hpa