Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:
That would actually be really painful.
That would actually be really painful.
But I *think* you're confusing it with the vdso case, which really does do that whole "generate ELF information for debuggers and dynamic linkers" thing. The vsyscall page never did that afaik, and purely relied on fixed addresses.
relied on fixed addresses.
Linus
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there which reads the 'elf' to get to them.That would actually be really painful.
That would actually be really painful.
But I *think* you're confusing it with the vdso case, which really does do that whole "generate ELF information for debuggers and dynamic linkers" thing. The vsyscall page never did that afaik, and purely relied on fixed addresses.
relied on fixed addresses.
Linus
Linus
Linus
