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64-bit pure distros?

Posted Sep 23, 2010 18:37 UTC (Thu) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537)
In reply to: 64-bit pure distros? by dag-
Parent article: The hazards of 32/64-bit compatibility

This has been brought up before. See the first part of http://lwn.net/Articles/405955/, which instructs the kernel to execute everything looking like a 32-bit ELF using /bin/echo (which obviously doesn't execute much).

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