The time has come for a kernel interfacing library layer

Thomas E. Spanjaard tgen at netphreax.net
Sat May 7 11:05:23 PDT 2005


Matthew Dillon wrote:
    The kernel loader (and ld-elf
    when it loads things) will automatically detect the existance of the
    section and automatically mmap() the actual syscall layer into the 
    BSS space, as well as mmap() anything else that it needs for system
    interfacing (any additional mmap()'d sections will be not be directly
    visible to userland.  Userland only sees the stub table).
Can I safely assume here that you mean it'll load 'old defaults' for 
programs not carrying around that specific bss data section?

Cheers,
		-- Thomas E. Spanjaard
		   tgen at xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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