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

Olaf Hering
2006-07-11T20:11:33Z

On Tue, Jul 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> > 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.
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> I think it's all about kernel space.
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> 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).

It depends what the benefit for such a change is. I cant come up with a
good guess. Maybe someone should write a paper and present it at OLS.