Re: execute a user process in the kernel

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 09/25/04

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To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>

    On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:35:07PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > > 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.

    Discussions with peter@ and others on IRC have been ongoing regarding doing
    it in kernel space, so as to avoid unnecessarily expensive VM fork operations
    when 'spawning' a process.

    I'd be interested to hear more about your proposal for doing this in userland.

    BMS
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