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From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>
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In-reply-to: <199906211623.JAA80719@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from Tim
	Vanderhoek on Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:23:16 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_gzip.c
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>>>>> Tim Vanderhoek writes:

 > hoek        1999/06/21 09:23:15 PDT
 >   Modified files:
 >     sys/kern             imgact_gzip.c 
 >   Log:
 >   Correctly return ENOEXEC for really short zipped files.  The way this is
 >   done is less-than cute, but this whole file is suffering from some amount
 >   of bitrot.  Execution of zipped files should probably be implemented in a
 >   manner similar to that of #!/interpreted files.
  
Do this mean that it should be possible to run gzip'ed executables??? I
though it was not possible with ELF binaries. Even after this commit I
am unable to do it:
$ cp /bin/ls .
$ gzip ls
$ ./ls.gz 
bash: ./ls.gz: cannot execute binary file
Output=32 Inflate_error=1 igz.error=8 error2=0 where=180

Jean-Marc

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