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From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux /proc/*/maps emulation
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>I don't know enough about linking to proceed. It's a fifo, but I don't
>know what is connected to the other end. The kernel - why? ld.so? If
>so, why can Linux ld.so work in FreeBSD's Linux emulation that has no
>procfs/*/maps

My guess would be that ld.so doesn't need to know where it got mmapped
to, the shlib code just calls mmap for each of the libraries and they
get loaded in.

Robert



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