On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 01:16:56AM +0330, mokhi wrote: > Hi guys. > I was reading/studying code of Elf image activator to see how binary > stars on FreeBSD. > On included file (sysent.h), I saw 3 declarations: > extern struct sysentvec aout_sysvec; > extern struct sysentvec elf_freebsd_sysvec; > extern struct sysentvec null_sysvec; > > I looked at their definitions too (though i couldn't find > elf_freebsd_sysvec, where's it ?). It is in sys/<arch>/<arch>/elf_machdep.c. Grep would find it to you.
> I have some (maybe simple, so sorry for it :D) questions. > > 1) what's sysentvec for, basically ? and in which concept it connects > to image-activators (such as ELF image activator [or a.out's]) The structure describes an ABI to kernel. Consider it the object in C++ sense which provides implementations of the ABI-specific operations from the kernel side. Image activator sets curproc->p_sysent for the process at exec(2) time according to the information specified in the binary, which effectively determines the kernel-side of the ABI for the process. > > 2) is there any reference/guide to see how should/can we define a > "struct sysentvec" for new format ? There is no guide, read the code. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
