On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. squawked: > From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports > the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an > X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only supported the dll loader. >
The otherway around. Xorg 7 only uses the dlloader. cf. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml Also, the dlloader is compatible with hardened systems, while elfloader fails horribly when it comes to PIC code. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml I think the difference is basically that elfloader is built from scratch by the X team, while dlloader just uses ld-linux.so from glibc. W -- Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? Sortir en Pantoufles: up 185 days, 7:36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
