From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 20: 7:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law-f52.hotmail.com [209.185.131.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E0A337B870 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:07:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manny8383@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 3588 invoked by uid 0); 25 May 2000 03:07:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20000525030714.3587.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 128.8.96.27 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:07:14 PDT X-Originating-IP: [128.8.96.27] From: "Manny Obrey" To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hack.c in kernel Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:07:14 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tks for the clarifcation! >From: Peter Jeremy >To: Manny Obrey >CC: hackers@freebsd.org >Subject: hack.c in kernel >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:03:37 +1000 > >On Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:34 PDT, "Manny Obrey" >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 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message