Re: [Qemu-devel] linux-user: enabling binfmt P flag

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 September 2014 12:25, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 17/09/2014 18:12, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> Does anybody care to try to float the idea of an API
>> extension to the binfmt stuff to pass us the argv0
>> out-of-band (eg via an elf auxv vector entry if some
>> new binfmt flag is passed)? That would I think be the
>> best approach, though obviously it's a kernel change.
>>
>> Failing that I'm not sure we can change upstream
>> QEMU's behaviour because it will just break too
>> much to do that. This sucks but the kernel as it
>> stands just gives us no manoeuvering room :-(
>
> Another idea is to add a configure option that defaults to yes.

I think that still ends up breaking a bunch of people
at some point in the future.

I spoke to a kernel guy this morning and he seemed
vaguely positive about the idea of an API extension,
so I'll see if I can find time to write and send out
a patch for that.

-- PMM