On Thursday, April 19, 2007 07:33:39 PM -0400 Derrick J Brashear
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Dean Anderson wrote:
What are we even talking about at this point? You're describing a
method of handling kernel interfaces that I don't recognize at all.
Really? What did we do before there were dynamic modules? I recall
having to relink the kernel with vendor-provided objects back in the old
days. I suppose dynamic loading has become like cellphones and
On some platforms (HPUX, Digital UNIX) that was true. On others there was
this hack called dkload that basically was loadable modules for systems
which don't actually support loadable kernel modules natively.
dkload worked just fine on HP-UX. I suspect you're thinking of Irix 6,
where dynamic loading worked but much of the time we had pre-release
modules which Transarc distributed only as binaries intended to be linked
into the kernel.
I seem to recall it also worked on OSF/1, eventually; IIRC, it wasn't
available at first because the system linker lacked some needed feature.
-- Jeff
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