On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > 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 Need someone to finish this? I would really like it for the filters I'm writing for nfil (/n/sources/dodell/nfil) --Devon