In message <4362BA38.1090603_at_portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >You can solve most of those issues by exporting from kernel to userland >not only page(s) with actual data, but also page(s) with code to handle >that data. Then you can turn syscalls implementation in libc into plain >function calls to addresses in that code page(s). This approach can >potentially have other interesting applications, for example it will be >possible to use processor-specific syscalls instructions without >recompiling userland, move some of the ABI code into userland (i.e. >freebsd32 layer on amd64) etc. I'm not sure I see much difference between a shared library and this solution, but I'm equally sure we'd love to se a prototype before we judge it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Oct 29 2005 - 05:13:35 UTC
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