Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:03:37 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Manny Obrey <manny8383@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: hack.c in kernel Message-ID: <00May25.110339est.115245@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:34 PDT, "Manny Obrey" <manny8383@hotmail.com> wrote: >I saw the following near the end of running "make depend;make" during a >kernel re-config ... seriously, is this something to be concerned about? ... >cc -elf -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So To expand somewhat on Kris's answer: hack.So is a dummy shared object whose sole purpose is to make the linker mark the kernel as a `dynamic', rather than `static' executable. This allows it to use the dynamic loader (ie load kernel modules at run time). This is probably an RTFM, but I'm not sure which FM to suggest you R. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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