From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: common name for the kernel DSO
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:46:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF15C41.2020908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16113.22348.748334.416581@napali.hpl.hp.com>
David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On 18 Jun 2003 23:18:02 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>
>
> HPA> It's a pretty ugly name, quite frankly, since it doesn't explain what
> HPA> it is a gate from or to. linux-syscall.so.1 or linux-kernel.so.1
> HPA> would make a lot more sense.
>
> Umh, it does say _linux_-gate, so I think it's pretty
> self-explanatory. I considered linux-kernel.so, but think it would
> cause a lot of confusion vis-a-vis, say, kernel32.dll (I didn't write
> that, did I??). I'm not terribly fond of linux-syscall, but I could
> live with it.
>
There is a lot of "linux" in userspace too, though. ld-linux.so.* to
start out with...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-19 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-18 19:12 common name for the kernel DSO David Mosberger
2003-06-18 20:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-06-18 20:35 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-18 22:51 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-18 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-18 23:56 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-25 3:19 ` Roland McGrath
2003-06-19 6:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-19 6:25 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-19 6:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-06-19 6:49 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-21 6:42 ` Pavel Machek
2003-06-19 19:15 ` Jamie Lokier
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[not found] ` <20030619192018$5cab@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-19 20:26 ` David Mosberger-Tang
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2003-06-18 19:12 David Mosberger
2003-06-18 20:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-06-18 20:35 ` David Mosberger
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