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Re: Checking for ET_EXEC


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: Checking for ET_EXEC
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 20:05:34 +0900
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At Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:53:33 -0500,
Rayiner Hashem wrote:
> is equal to ET_EXEC. This isn't necessarily the best thing to do. It
> is sometimes appropriate to build a kernel as a shared library (.so,
> of type ET_DYN) as it makes kernel modules behave very similar to
> regular userspace modules. You might want to consider removing the
> test for ET_EXEC.

Then, what address does your kernel start at? Does a shared library
get kicked to start with no program? It seems just horrible to me.

Okuji
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