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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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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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