Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:21 AM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 04:54:18 -0600
> Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>
>
>> Not really. The actual thing is, linuxulator is a Linux kernel running
>> as a FreeBSD kernel module. The only thing FreeBSD kernel do is to
>> identify the Linux program and to pass it to the Linux kernel. To the
>> Linux programs inside a GNU chroot enviroment, they think they are
>> running inside a Linux box and actually they are running inside a
>> Linux box.
>
> Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that it was a
> fairly thin emulation layer on top of the FreeBSD kernel. Has something
> changed?

To Linux program, there is no "emulation layer". This technology
should be called "extended ELF lookup table", and has nothing to do
with emulation.

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