The Teensy Executable Revisited

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The Teensy Executable Revisited (or, "Thunderclouds Gather on the Horizon") On a couple of occasions, people have responded to my original essay with the comment that what I've created by the end isn't really an ELF executable. Rather, it is a file that the Linux kernel, in its current incarnation, happens to mistake for an ELF executable. It's a fair point. That 45-byte file clearly doesn't conform to numerous requirements of the ELF specification. But can you blame me? How could I have stopped

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