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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dynamic-vs-static linked /bin etc (was: Re: TCP latency)
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:21:33 GMT
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nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson) wrote:

> How again did you say you were going to do this without a shell?
> Does linux mmap() in the shlibs?

I think any decent system mmap()'s the shlibs.  The shared linker
(/usr/libexec/ld.so in BSD) is the program responsible for doing this.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)