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It's a lot of machinery to put into a kernel. (Even with ELF, a kernel can have a relatively simple parser and loader and leave more challenging work to user s
by jdub 24d ago
It's a lot of machinery to put into a kernel.
(Even with ELF, a kernel can have a relatively simple parser and loader and leave more challenging work to user space... like relocations, dynamic libraries, etc.)
- zokier 24d agotbh execve should be userspace operation instead of syscall, idk why kernel needs to care about the executable format at all