Re: buffer cache

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> I accept the idea. I also accept the idea that said module writer can
> also write all his own include files _too_, and avoid even having to
> have a kernel tree around at all. 

I don't think you can entertain that idea, because...

> I think he'd have to be on crack, but I do accept that he _can_ do that.

...to write his own files which allow modules to work with the kernel
would require duplicating the existing include files in great detail -
perhaps enough to count as a derived work.

In other words, it's widely believed that he _can't_ do that.

Fwiw I don't have any problem with this.

-- Jamie

ps. It may be possible, after all people have written binary modules
for other operating systems purely by reverse engineering the
operating system, starting with no source.  Perhaps that's what
you're advocating ;)