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Libc as a module ...

Posted Dec 1, 2010 12:06 UTC (Wed) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256)
In reply to: The kernel and the C library as a single project by sfeam
Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project

Concievably one could use a design similar to the VDSO "linuxgate" which was part of the Linux threads NG support a few years ago.

A default might simply implement the same mmap/linkage semantics that are in use already. However, any specific kernel image could over-ride that behavior.

I'm not advocating such an approach. I'm merely speculating on what someone might reasonably mean by saying such things.


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