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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > That means that for fooling closed-source statically-linked binary,
> 
> If they are using glibc then you have the right to the object to link
> with the library and the library source under the LGPL. I dont know of any
> app using its own C lib

Some don't use any libc at all, some just don't use it for the time call
that were talking about substituting.

Lying about the time is a hack, pure and simple. It will still be possible
with magic pages. The fact that it will require more kernel hacking to
accomplish it is irrelevant.