Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:07:14 PDT From: "Manny Obrey" <manny8383@hotmail.com> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hack.c in kernel Message-ID: <20000525030714.3587.qmail@hotmail.com>
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tks for the clarifcation! >From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> >To: Manny Obrey <manny8383@hotmail.com> >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" <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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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
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