[I wrote this to help current or future students who might want to do projects involving dynamic linking. But it may be of interest more widely. There may well be an equivalent or better article out there; if anyone knows one, please let me know.] In old-fashioned static linking, the executable file captures a complete starting “memory image” of the program being loaded. The kernel simply maps the binary into memory, creates an initial thread stack, dumps some useful information onto it (...
