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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux@horizon.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A simpler variant on sys_indirect?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:09:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468F11FE.2070404@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706301447530.1172@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The batching has serious problems, not the least of which is that it's a 
> fundamentally more complex interface, and introduces issues like "how do 
> we pass values from one system call to the next". 
> 

Why, we obviously need a Turing-complete language running in kernel 
space (interpreted, of course, to keep it secure.)  Pretty soon we can 
run the whole app in it, and we'll have to have a JIT to make it suck on 
less.  Since it's going to need caffeine, we can call it "Java."

	-hpa


      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-07  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-30 20:52 A simpler variant on sys_indirect? linux
2007-06-30 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-07  4:09   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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