From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@chello.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:42:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706231842.00798.duwe@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706231819.43556.microchip@chello.be>
On Saturday 23 June 2007, you wrote:
> hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...]
Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user
space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an
in-kernel linker and symbol table, IIRC.
Torsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 12:17 How innovative is Linux? Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 15:22 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 16:12 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:19 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 16:42 ` Torsten Duwe [this message]
2007-06-23 16:54 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-06-23 17:30 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 17:49 ` Diego Calleja
2007-06-23 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 21:02 ` Al Viro
2007-06-23 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 18:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-23 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 17:38 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-06-23 19:18 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-23 18:36 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-24 4:31 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-23 22:02 ` Carlo Wood
2007-06-23 22:16 ` David Kane
[not found] ` <345c044f0706231513u46d870es6539bdf5797b305b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-23 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-25 9:39 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-06-25 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-24 21:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-06-23 18:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 18:17 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 17:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-23 18:15 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 18:54 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 19:06 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 23:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-25 15:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-25 15:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-25 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 17:51 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-26 12:26 ` Helge Hafting
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2007-06-23 17:43 Al Boldi
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