Linux kernel

Jacob Schmude jacobs at surferie.net
Sat Apr 28 21:15:48 EDT 2001


Hi
   It's elf. A.out is not really used anymore and its libraries are provided
only for compatibility. The kernel is not even capable of being compiled as
a.out anymore, the last version that could do that was 2.0 series. The
modules are ELF object files.

HTH



On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:53:55PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is the Linux kernel and modules an a.out or elf binary? 




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