In message <17560ccf0903271348p52351481v4cc83c14037e8836_at_mail.gmail.com>, Prash ant Vaibhav writes: >Actually OS X is more similar than that: the shared page also contains >functions that can be called by user applications, though their entry points >are fixed and they're not in any particular format like elf/mach-o. >Userspace implementations of gettimeofday, bcopy etc. are provided in the >kernel itself, which is a nice design imo as the specific version to load is >chosen by the kernel at boot time depending on processor capabilities. That would get my vote. -- 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 Fri Mar 27 2009 - 19:56:58 UTC
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