Re: Emulating i486 on i386 (was: TSCs are a no-no on i386)

From: Ben Pfaff (blp_at_cs.stanford.edu)
Date: 07/31/03

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Date:	31 Jul 2003 10:35:00 -0700

    Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:

    > On Thu, 2003-07-31 16:12:26 +0100, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
    > wrote in message <20030731151226.GG6410@mail.jlokier.co.uk>:
    > > Alan Cox wrote:
    > > > On Iau, 2003-07-31 at 12:38, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
    > > > > See? It's loaded at the "ls" call, but it seems to be not loaded for
    > > > > apt-get.
    > > >
    > > > Remember you need to overload signal setting functions like sigaction.
    > > > My guess is apt decided to disable your signal and you didnt stop it
    > >
    > > An application might install its own SIGILL handler to emulate or trap
    > > _other_ instructions. To do it properly, you have to chain the handlers.
    > >
    > > Not sure how to do this, when you get to the stage of two LD_PRELOAD
    > > libraries each wanting to overload sigaction.
    >
    > That's not (yet) my problem and I think it's not impossible to hook
    > them. _But_ before, I need to get called at all _before_ libstdc++5's
    > _init(). For now, I haven't managed to do that...

    One way to get loaded before anything else is to do ELF binary
    loading by hand in userspace. The kernel exec loads your
    program, which sets up trap handlers etc., then loads the actual
    target binary by hand. I did this for an application sandbox.
    Writing the loader took less than half a day since I was able to
    use a lot of kernel code from binfmt_elf.c directly, just
    translating internal kernel calls into open, mmap, etc. system
    calls. 

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