Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:16:15 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: peter@netplex.com.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Begging to be asked (ELF Kernel) Message-ID: <199810230516.WAA23336@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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In article <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au>,
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote:
> > So my 2 questions are: 1)Why is the kernel dynamically linked,
> > and 2) why can I not ldd the kernel (I coppied the file to another
> > place and attempted to ldd that un-live kernel as well, no dice)
>
> ldd is an a.out tool.
It's an ELF tool too. Doug Rabson added the necessary stuff to the
ELF dynamic linker last May.
The way I would put it is that ldd is a tool for application programs,
not for kernels.
John
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