Sat 2003-02-15 00:57, andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

 >> What should it actually open? A cfg file?

 > Not sure.  I was just pointing out the problem with strace.

Actually, you won't believe this, but rexcfgl segfaults in much the same
way on my Linux box.  I should've checked this before, hmm!

1:06 ozzmosis{at}vmware [~/irex]uname -a
Linux vmware 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jul 20 16:32:24 MEST 1999 i586 unknown

(old, admittedly, but IREX is dated 2001-10-21...)

1:11 ozzmosis{at}vmware [~/irex]less rexcfgl.trace
execve("./rexcfgl", ["./rexcfgl"], [/* 53 vars */]) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX)                  = 0
geteuid()                               = 100
getuid()                                = 100
getegid()                               = 100
getgid()                                = 100
brk(0)                                  = 0x80d1ccc
brk(0x80d1cec)                          = 0x80d1cec
brk(0x80d2000)                          = 0x80d2000
getpid()                                = 2141
brk(0x80d3000)                          = 0x80d3000
open("./rexcfgl", O_RDONLY)             = 4
lseek(4, -4, SEEK_END)                  = 563528
read(4, "\311f\370\372", 4)             = 4
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET)                   = 0
read(4,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\200"...,
4096) = 4096
read(4,
"\213\225T\376\377\377R\211\360\201\376\0\1\0\0v\5\270\0"...,
4096) = 4096

...

read(4, "ux (egcs-1.1.2 release)\0\0GCC: (G"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4,
".01\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\00001.01\0\0\0\10\0\0"...,
2376) = 2376
read(4, "", 0)                          = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Funny thing is, I seem to recall having it running under Linux at one stage.

The above does look a bit like the executable is trying to decompress
itself (or something like that).

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