On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > > I see something strange in the load_elf_binary. > > > > /* This is the program interpreter used for > > * shared libraries - for now assume that this > > * is an a.out format binary > > */ > > > > This comment is in the load_elf_binary. I don't know why it "assume that > > this is an a.out format binary". a.out and elf are two different file > > formats. > > > > If I misunderstand something, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > > > - mudongliang > > > very likely it refers to "a.out" as default object/executable name > produces by gcc, when you don't specify certain name. FWIW it looks like historical stuff to me, IIUC you could have had a dynamic loader aka interpreter (`ld.so') built as an a.out binary and still serve ELF binaries. See also other a.out in this file and CONFIG_USELIB. This stuff was hairy back in the days. Also: $ cat /usr/doc/ld.so-1.9.11/ld.so.lsm Begin3 Title: Linux shared, dynamic linker and utilities. Version: 1.9.11 Entered-date: 01MAY99 Description: This package contains ld.so, ld-linux.so, ldconfig, ldd and libdl. Keywords: dynamic linker, shared library, ld.so, ld-linux.so, ldconfig, ldd, libdl Author: david@xxxxxxx (David Engel) Maintained-by: david@xxxxxxx (David Engel) Primary-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/GCC ld.so-1.9.11.tar.gz Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/GCC ld.so-1.9.11.tar.gz Platform: Linux 2.0.0 or later. Copying-policy: Copyrighted but freely distributable. End $ Maciej _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
