LLVM Image Activator

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi Kostik,
> 
> 2013/1/7 Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>:
> > I still do remember the buzz about the binary format 0xCAFEBABE, which
> > AFAIR gained image activator support on several OSes, to be garbage
> > collected.
> 
> Maybe it would then be a good idea then to add some kind of general
> purpose remapping imgact? Example:
> 
> /etc/imgacttab:
> 
> cafebabe /usr/local/bin/java
> cffaedfe /usr/local/bin/osx_emulator
> 4243c0de /usr/bin/lli
> 
> That way we still give people the freedom to play around with mapping
> their own executable formats, but don't need to maintain a bunch of
> imgacts.

A generic module that could be somewhat customized at runtime to map
offset+signature into the shebang path could be a possibility indeed.
I strongly prefer to have it as module and not enabled by default.

Asking Nathan for writing the thing is too much, IMHO, esp. in
the response to the 50-lines hack.
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