[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 18468 - NicolasPierron - nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/lib

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/11/20 Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> It’s the dynamic linker that actually parses the ELF file, etc., not the
>> kernel.  See ld.so(1) on a GNU system, for instance.
>
> The kernel also parses the ELF file because it has to get the ELF interpreter
> field and then load the dynamic linker (which is also an ELF executable).
And not that far, there are statically compiled ELFs.

> PatchELF even contains a workaround for a bug in the ELF handling code in the
> Linux kernel :-)
Hummm maybe this may cause those "run patchelf two times in arm"
problems? Was the bug i386 specific?

Regards,
Lluís