[openbeos] Re: Kernel status (POSIX)
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:13:14 -0600 (CST)
> > So, essentially everyone came back to what I said originally.
> > "Keep posix out of the kernel and make it a library instead."
>
> For a lot of stuff you need kernel support (or at least support
> from some module living in kernel space). A pure POSIX
> implementation in userland is next to undoable... tell me,
> for instance, how do you plan to implement fork() in userland.
You notice that I, at least, explicitly stated that it would be a *
kernel-space* module, just a kernel addon, not compiled into tthe
kernel itself.
-Nathan
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