Re: [9fans] OT: programming style under Plan9??

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

On Sat Apr  2 04:57:40 EST 2005, noselasd@asgaard.homelinux.org wrote:
> ...
> .. "See dynld(2)."
> Well, there is no dynld :-) Beeing a curious person, what is/was
> dynld ?

     DESCRIPTION
          These functions allow a process to load further code and
          data into the currently executing image.  A dynamically-
          loadable file, called a module here, is a variant of the
          a.out(6) executable format with some extra components.  The
          loader for the architecture (see 2l(1)) creates a module
          file from component object file(s) when given the -u option.
          A module contains text and data sections, an import table,
          an export table, and relocation data.  The import table
          lists the symbols the module needs from the loading program;
          the export table lists symbols the module provides when
          loaded.  A program that loads a module provides a table of
          its own symbols to match the symbols in the module's import
          table.

Last summer I did a kernel module driver but a better management scheme
was suggested and I ripped it out and started again. But never finished.

--jim