Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 19:28:52 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System Message-ID: <199704010328.TAA25551@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199703312059.NAA10110@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199703312059.NAA10110@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In article <199703312059.NAA10110@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > I've felt for a long time now that the intent of the memory hole > at the start of the executable in the ELF SVR4 EABI was to allow > the mapping of the ld.so into the process address space without > there being code in crt0.o to actually do the work. That is exactly the case in SVR4. The kernel maps the combined libc+ld.so into the hole before execution begins. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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