Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:42:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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Hi!
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just > > about any language that has ORBit bindings. > > > > Ben Ford wrote: > > > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? > > > > Precisely... but also, there could be a case where perl would make > sense. Consider an FTP filesystem. There performance is not dictated by > the speed of the language, it's limited by bandwidth. It could make sense > to write your almighty FTPfs like this: > > 1. Prototype it in Perl, get all the bugs out. > 2. Rewrite in C in userspace, get all the bugs out. > 3. recompile/relink in kernel space with no source modifications > 4. ship product. :)
Bad example, as (with codafs), you can do this safely & nicely without korbit. See http://uservfs.sourceforge.net/ Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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