Exec?

[christianbundy]

This is probably very silly, but I'd like to be able to run one of the files in the virtual filesystem. Is this something that's supported, or is this a terrible idea that I should immediately forget about?

[Helyk]

@christanbundy Some googling lead me to go-memexec project that seems to do exactly that. I didn't try it myself yet but maybe you'll be interested.

[Helyk]

After looking into the go-memexec code I figured that it creates a temporary file to run a command, which is not the desired behavior. Obviously, it works. Some projects may find this strategy satisfactory, but it is not what was requested in this issue.

[Helyk]

I opened an issue in go-memexec regarding the specific implementation of "running a binary from memory" and the author has changed it (for Linux) to mount a portion of memory with the binary as a process, if I understand the details correctly.

As it is in release 0.5.0, it served my purpose perfectly.