From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 17 06:02:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA07909 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 06:02:34 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA07902 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 06:02:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA17368; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 06:02:10 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Marc Ramirez cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GCL and unexec() In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jan 95 20:47:14 EST." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 06:02:09 -0800 Message-ID: <17367.790351329@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 2) What is the right thing to do? Basically, I don't have an > understanding of the load/map-in process. Does the kernel just throw the > binary into virtual memory and JMP? What happens to the exec header? Is > it lost? If not, could I write a library function unexec() which could > be used for ever and ever, maintained by whomever maintains the exec > format du jour? Take a look at the unexec*.c code in emacs. It's not that hard to follow. > One other thing: I went to a fly tying class tonight. For those of you > that don't know, it is a *great* place to meet women! :) Women are into fly fishing?!? When did THAT happen? :-) Jordan