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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 22:02:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A new Kernel Module System 
Message-ID:  <27686.859838573@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:22:54 CDT." <199703311922.OAA16298@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 

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Question:  If we stick the linker in the kernel, doesn't it mean that
we could use it for shlibs too ?

Basically the dl* functions could be made syscalls couldn't they ?

That would be way faster than mmap'ing ld.so all the time...


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