Newbie Question - What is actually executing the binary?

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 01:10, snodx at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Thanks for your awnsers. Your awnsers gave me a lot of searching material.
> 
> I searched for "How the kernel executes binary files" and some such related
> keywords, keyphrases in google and I came across this URL:
> 
> http://tech.dupnica.net/understandinlinuxkernel/ch19e.html
> 
> This webpage deals a lot with the internal working of the kernel. It
> mentions the functions sys_execve, prepare_binprm and load_binary
> which perform the binary execution process.
> 
> But what I was interested in knowing is WHICH kernel module defines
> these functions? Which library is called by the kernel when it recieves
> the instruction to execute a binary, the library that contains these 
> symbols?
> 
> What I basically am interested in is the knowing the complete knowledge
> of the background? That is when I create an executable of my own using
> gcc or some other 'C' compiler and run the executable by saying
> "./executable-name" then which kernel modules are involved, their
> sequence e.t.c. If I get to know the name of even one kernel module
> I can search out the whole module sequence from google.
> 
> By the by in this context I ran the command "ksyms" on a Redhat
> terminal but I did not come across the aforementioned symbols, not
> even something close. I guess "ksyms" shows only the externally
> usable kernel symbols.
> 
> Sorry for keeping you engaged.
> 
> SNODX

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