Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:28:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern link_aout.c Message-ID: <199810101828.LAA09490@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:32:16 %2B0800." <199810100932.RAA14971@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> > The comment about not creating an a.out kernel module is an artifact of > the initialization sequence. The boot loader creates a record for the > kernel, and *both* link_elf.c and link_aout.c are run. They both see > _DYNAMIC and will quite happily create a linker pseudo-file entry called > "kernel". It's kinda neat seeing two kernels loaded at once, but I didn't > want to think what would happen if the a.out module tried to interpret the > elf _DYNAMIC pointer as an a.out object. If they were simply to check the *type* of the module (which they really ought to in order to avoid looking for a symbol table in eg. a splash screen image), then there'd be no problem with this. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com
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