A question about a word "userland"

[Ken Smith]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:58:32AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:

> Would a good "rule of thumb" be - if you have to rebuild the kernel 
> after changes for it to be useful, it's not userland, everything else IS 
> userland?

Very close. :-)

The loadable modules make it slightly more complicated than that
because strictly speaking you aren't rebuilding the kernel for them
but they are considered part of the kernel.

Anything that is not built into the kernel and is not a loadable
kernel module is "userland".

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