BTW, I don't strictly need it.
I need a working sleep API, more than that ☺


On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Davide Libenzi <[email protected]> wrote:

> You will have to have the notion of "master interpreter" ELF.
> The kernel would just do something like:
>
> if (is_ELF(path))
>   load_ELF(path);
> else
>   call_master_interpreter_ELF(path, args...);
>
> I am not sure the security implications of it, and performance (loading
> two ELFs instead of one).
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:52 AM, barret rhoden <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-12-01 at  6:34 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros wrote:
>> > Yes. In other OSs  there is the notion of binary interpreters.
>> > In Linux for example, the script_fmt interpreter looks if the first
>> > byte is '#' and the second byte is '!', and then try to parse the
>> > interpreter from the first line, and call that by building the proper
>> > args to it.
>>
>> If that's something you need, then I'd be up for us having it.
>>
>> Would we need to put that in the kernel?  Or is that something
>> userspace could do?  I guess the user would need an open, read, close,
>> before calling sys_proc_create.  The benefit is the kernel does less
>> internally, so it's less code in the TCB.
>>
>> Part of the reason I bring up userspace is that one long-range plan I
>> had was to get argument parsing completely out of the kernel, where the
>> parent sets up the user's stack, and the kernel doesn't need to do any
>> parsing.  Maybe even get the kernel out of the elf processing business.
>>
>> Barret
>>
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