From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 10:32:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E97016A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:32:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mymail.netmagicians.com (mymail.netmagicians.com [202.87.39.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A86F843D39 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:32:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sid@netmagicsolutions.com) Received: (qmail 8110 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 10:47:30 -0000 Received: from sid@netmagicsolutions.com by netmagicsolutions.com by uid 504 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (uvscan: v4.3.20/v4100. Clear:. Processed in 0.757692 secs); 17 Aug 2004 10:47:30 -0000 Received: from intra.netmagicsolutions.com (HELO ?10.1.1.161?) (202.87.39.242) by mymail.netmagicians.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 10:47:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4121DED6.2000808@netmagicsolutions.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:02:54 +0530 From: Siddhartha Jain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis George References: <20040817100128.95409.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817100128.95409.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ELF Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:32:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dennis George wrote: | What is elf kernel ? | ELF is a binary file format. Stands for Executable and Linking format. The kernel must support this format so that files made in this format can be loaded, read and executed by the kernel. http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~haungs/paper/node10.html Now the kernel itself is a big binary file. Under FreeBSD, the kernel itself is a dynamically linked ELF binary. Goto "/" and issue "file kernel" and see the results. Ofcourse, there are unconfirmed rumours that Linus Torvarlds was just the front man for Santa Claus and the Tooth fairy, who actually wrote the Linux kernel alongwith elves and hence the name Elf Kernel ;) HTH, - -- Siddhartha Jain (CISSP) Consulting Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd Bombay - 400063 Phone: +91-22-26850001 Ext.128 Fax : +91-22-26850002 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBId7WOGaxOP7knVwRAo6bAJ49Pp6U7rvmuSodd0RuaH3fwHgLAQCeMGVd N5VXUzzI14VeoYhuqfxpKoA= =umxi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----