Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Paul H. Hargrove" <> | Subject | Re: Java in OS? | Date | Sun, 05 May 1996 20:11:41 -0700 |
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Thomas Quinot wrote: > > Mike Black (mblack@csihq.com) écrit : > > > Is there any possibility of Linux also doing this? It'd really be neat if > > Linux could be first-on-the-market. > > Java is totally irrelevant to the Linux kernel. It would not be neat at > all to have Java in the kernel, for it has STRICTLY NOTHING to do there. > There is no reason whatsoever to implement that.
Actually a binfmt_java.o module that would be invoked if the kernel recognized a magic number at the start of a Java byte-code executable would make sense. It would, of course, invoke a user-space Java interpreter not a kernel-space one.
-- Paul H. Hargrove All material not otherwise attributed hargrove@sccm.stanford.edu is the opinion of the author or a typo.
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