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		userbinator on April 30, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Path Isn't Real on Linux I've worked with "both sides" and the way ELF shared libraries on Linux work is an absolute bloody mess compared to how Windows' PE works. On Windows the same executable format and dynamic linker are usable in both user and kernel mode.

NikkiA on April 30, 2025 [–]

to be fair to linux, elf was bolted on after a few years, the original linux used a variant of coff without shared library support.

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