On Monday, 22 August 2016 10:57:51 BST Antti Kantee wrote: > On 22/08/16 10:43, Geoffrey Clements wrote: > > Sorry but we're all noobs here. >
Yes but some are more noob than others ;) (with apologies to George Orwell) > > This thread touches the subject, with a slightly longer version: > https://www.freelists.org/post/rumpkernel-users/Library-Guide-Minimization > Thanks for the link, at least that confirms for me that it isn't some cognitive defect on my part. > > > It seems I need to include networking for a simple hello world program > > which does not feel right to me given the philosophy of unikernels. > > Philosophy and reality are not always aligned ;) > Rarely, I would say :) Just for the record, the minimum list would seem to be: -lrumpnet -lrumpnet_config -lrumpnet_net The project I have planned for my unikernel will require networking so this is not a problem for me. > It is definitely possible to avoid including the networking stack. > That's in fact what I did, IIRC, for rumprun-nethack. However, it > requires a bit of recompilation. Of course, it's not impossible or even > hard to fix properly, but nobody has had a pressing need to fix it and > contribute their fix for others to enjoy. I would love to be able to contribute but, alas, I'm not sure I am capable enough for such things. -- Geoff
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