kernel rakshakudu wrote: > > hi, > untill now i was thinking ld-linux.so.2 is a > interpreter(linker) which is required at runtime when > any command like "ls" is executed on command line. > then this linker will search for various libraries and > prepares the executable for running(execution) > > but /lib/ld-linux.so.2 can be executed at the command > line with any executable as the argument. like > [root@kahan]# /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ls You'll note this is very much like how a bash script works as well. As far as I can tell, the linker (ld-linux.so.2) is very much an interpreter in this sense. If you use objdump to examine the headers (-all), you'll note the ld-linux.so.2 will show up as a dependency. The kernel attempts to read the file format and load/run the appropriately interpreter if necessary. As the executable of ls is an elf file, it will load up the listed interpreter. Ryan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
