Re: ldlinux.so.? in the kernel?

James Higgins (jamesh@preferred.com)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 02:26:05 -0400 (EDT)


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> At that point we could also put the elf loader (/lib/ldlinux.so.xx) into
> the kernel. It is needed by all ELF programs anyways. Would speed up
> loading. Making modules as ELF libraries would get rid of the special
> things we are having in the kernel for those and possibly allow us to use
> more standard tools for kernel debugging.
>

I am new to linux and kernel programming. The question that this raises
to me is:

What would that do to the kernel size? How big is the loader?

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