Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:02:54 +0530 From: Siddhartha Jain <sid@netmagicsolutions.com> To: Dennis George <easyeinfo@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ELF Kernel Message-ID: <4121DED6.2000808@netmagicsolutions.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817100128.95409.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040817100128.95409.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dennis George wrote: | What is elf kernel ? | ELF is a binary file format. Stands for Executable and Linking format. The kernel must support this format so that files made in this format can be loaded, read and executed by the kernel. http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~haungs/paper/node10.html Now the kernel itself is a big binary file. Under FreeBSD, the kernel itself is a dynamically linked ELF binary. Goto "/" and issue "file kernel" and see the results. Ofcourse, there are unconfirmed rumours that Linus Torvarlds was just the front man for Santa Claus and the Tooth fairy, who actually wrote the Linux kernel alongwith elves and hence the name Elf Kernel ;) HTH, - -- Siddhartha Jain (CISSP) Consulting Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd Bombay - 400063 Phone: +91-22-26850001 Ext.128 Fax : +91-22-26850002 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBId7WOGaxOP7knVwRAo6bAJ49Pp6U7rvmuSodd0RuaH3fwHgLAQCeMGVd N5VXUzzI14VeoYhuqfxpKoA= =umxi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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