tks for the clarifcation!
>From: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Manny Obrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: hack.c in kernel
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:03:37 +1000
>
>On Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:34 PDT, "Manny Obrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >I saw the following near the end of running "make depend;make" during a
> >kernel re-config ... seriously, is this something to be concerned about?
>...
> >cc -elf -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So
>
>To expand somewhat on Kris's answer: hack.So is a dummy shared object
>whose sole purpose is to make the linker mark the kernel as a
>`dynamic', rather than `static' executable. This allows it to use the
>dynamic loader (ie load kernel modules at run time). This is probably
>an RTFM, but I'm not sure which FM to suggest you R.
>
>Peter
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