execute a user process in the kernel

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > You could, of course, write a kernel API for creating processes from
> > scratch.  They'd still need a parent, but you can use init(8) (pid 1)
> > for that.
> If we were to implement POSIX spawn(), we'd need something like this.

Uh, no.  posix_spawn(3) can be implemented entirely in userland and
does not require any special kernel support.

DES
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