Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:01:46 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not. |
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> However, I'm still not convinced that this is the right way to go. What > you want to do for the main APIs is provide some nice userspace library > API for your applications. Why not put the whole "stack" into userspace > then and connect it to the kernel only via raw socket.
- Security - Compartmentalisation - Sharing the device/interconnect - Real time prioritisation
and a few others.
> What do others think? Is it worth the effort to invent a proper objdict > API for linux?
Objdict appears to be a legacy wart and can stay where it belongs I suspect - you might need to have a objdict -> 21st century conversion library for the afflicted. We don't put specialised COBOL support in the kernel either we let user space figure out how to cope with the funnies.
Alan
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