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Re:Executable Is a SQLite Database by jdub on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:38AM (#49418922)
It's a lot of machinery to put into a kernel.

(Even with ELF, a kernel can have a relatively simple parser and loader and leave more challenging work to user space... like relocations, dynamic libraries, etc.)

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Re:Executable Is a SQLite Database by zokier on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:20AM (#49420194)
tbh execve should be userspace operation instead of syscall, idk why kernel needs to care about the executable format at all
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