doc,
salamat sa kernel 101 na ito. although i have no plans to learn kernel programming,
this small detail is nevertheless important to my linux adventures.
isang hirit na lang doc, based on ur statements, i think it is safe to say that one
needs a c library, not specifically the gnu c library in order to compile the kernel
package. but during run time the kernel does not depend on any c library.
>One of the functions of the kernel is to provide system services
>to user space programs. If you read the file,
>/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S, you get an idea of what
>these services are. These include the usual system calls like
>exit, fork, read, write, open, etc. A big part of the c library
>is just to provide user space hooks to these kernel space services,
>althought the c library also has library functions that are not
>system calls, but the kernel never uses these. In fact, the library
>style functions that are not system calls, such as vsprintf and
>other string utilities are provided by the functions in
>/usr/src/linux/arc/i386/lib and /usr/src/linux/lib. Also, if
>you check /usr/src/linux/Makefile, the kernel "vmlinux" is built
>by linking all the kernel components, but the -lc option to the ld
>command is conspicuously absent, because the c library is not linked
>into the kernel.
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