> > I remember you've anready brought this up at one occasion.
> > It's elegant, and it would make LKMs more save and secure.
> > But perhaps the code which does the real linking can still be
> > outside the kernel, with some access to the kernel's address
> > space.
> > Do you know how DEC's /sbin/loader works?
> 
> /sbin/loader is the RTLD-equivalent.  Yes, I know more or less how it
> works (because I read the paper from OSF which describes how the OSF
> loader works, and the DEC OSF1/Digital UNIX /sbin/loader seems to be
> derived fro mthat).
> 
> As far as I can tell, it's completely orthogonal to loadable kernel
> modules, and the relevant manual pages seem to agree on this.

"And, in case it's not clear:" I say all of the above as somebody
who's been working with and examining DEC operating systems in detail
for 3+ years, _not_ as a DEC employee...  (*sigh*)



cgd