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<p><strong>From Bubba44hos on Fri, 05 May 2000
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I have a question and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. My
question is "sttep through a p[rogram being loaded into the system".
If you could help, that would be great. Thank you for your time,
Brian
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Argh!
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What does this mean? First "step through a program being loaded
into the system" is not a question; it's a directive.
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Does this (instructor?) want you to explain how to "single step"
through a program (using a debugger like 'gdb')? Does he or she
want you to explain the process of how programs get "loaded into"
(installed and configured) a system? Does he or she want to
hear about how programs are loaded (executed) by a shell?
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Anyway those are all interesting and vastly different topics.
None of them have simple answers since they depend a lot on
what sort of system, who is doing the "loading," and and what
sort of "program" we are talking about.
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