Re: Installing kernel 2.4

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 08:40:38 EST


> I would like to see some features added to ELF. Resource binding support
> would be nice, i.e. bitmaps used internally by GUI apps and such, so
> that they can be shared between processes if they are in a shared lib,

You can do shared mappings of almost anything anyway. In fact most of the
shared library loading is done in user space via mmap.

There are good reasons for not putting resources into the program itself too,
one of which is customisability.

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