ELF - section to program header mapping

From: Perianayagam Somasundaram <somu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:30:31 -0700

Hi,

How/who decides which sections goes into which Segement and Program header in an elf binary?

The reason I ask this the 2.6 and 2.4 kernel have different program header to section mapping!

Thanks
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