H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > (k)libc.so isn't a shared library in the ELF sense. It's an executable. > ... specifically, as far as ELF (and the kernel) is concerned, it's the ELF interpreter; it's linked at a fixed address and the application invokes it with usual static jumps. Very similar to old Linux a.out stuff. Messy and primitive, but very fast. -hpa