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SubjectRe: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not.
> 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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