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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:13:45AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The Future.
> 
> Early userspace is going to be merged in a series of evolutionary 
> changes, following what I call "The Al Viro model."  NO KERNEL BEHAVIOR 
> SHOULD CHANGE.  [that's for the lkml listeners, not you <g>]  "make" 
> will continue to simply Do The Right Thing(tm) on all platforms, while 
> the kernel image continues to get progressively smaller.

Won't the initial userspace be linked into the kernel? If so, why will
the kernel image get smaller?