Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11T19:51:47Z

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Does that mean "in kernel space", "in the kernel distribution" or "in memory
> completely under the control by the kernel?" That is really what this is
> about.

I think it's all about kernel space.

Moving the default parsing to user space would add exactly _zero_
advantage, and would add totally unnecessary complexity (ie now we need to
make sure that hotplug does it right - and the hotplug routines suddenly
change between the boot phase and the actual install).

Linus