Re: execute a user process in the kernel

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 09/25/04

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    To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:35:07 +0200

    Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
    > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > > You could, of course, write a kernel API for creating processes from
    > > scratch. They'd still need a parent, but you can use init(8) (pid 1)
    > > for that.
    > If we were to implement POSIX spawn(), we'd need something like this.

    Uh, no. posix_spawn(3) can be implemented entirely in userland and
    does not require any special kernel support.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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