On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:15:47 +0300 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > 03.11.2016 12:46, Toby Speight wrote: > > I was able to work around this issue by hand-editing the postinst it to add > > '|mips*' to the end of $omit (luckily, I don't need MIPS emulation on my > > systems). > > > > The one thing that stands out about the MIPS registration is that the magic > > and mask are much longer than for other systems - is it possible that the > > kernel can't handle such long patterns? If so, can this be detected and > > avoided? > > This change was introduced very recently, see #829243. But it works fine > on my system. I wonder if 3.16 kernel is unable to process that binfmt > while 4.1+ can handle it... Oh well.
Looks like this kernel commit added support for longer formats: bbaecc088245e840e59a5abe23d69cf7748b3c88 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/binfmt_misc.c?id=bbaecc088245e840e59a5abe23d69cf7748b3c88 This is probably what causes this. The above commit exists only in 3.18+ James
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