From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 22 22:16:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22104 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:16:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22094 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA23336; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810230516.WAA23336@austin.polstra.com> To: peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: Begging to be asked (ELF Kernel) In-Reply-To: <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:16:15 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199810230302.LAA24981@spinner.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message