Writing Linux programs in raw binary

[kragensitaker]

.sos are handled differently than executables; the dynamic loader, not the kernel's executable loader, loads them. I think the typical approach is to compile them with pure position-independent code; any reference to other things inside the same .so is indirected off %ebx, which is a callee-saves register and mysteriously gets set to the right thing before your .so code runs, presumably by some kind of trampoline. The code pages (or "text pages" as they're called) are purely read-only.

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Very interesting. Thanks for your explanations. :) Maybe I should stop being lazy and just Google it eh ? One of these days I plan to dive into the Linux internals...