On Monday 07 November 2005 23:13, Can Sar wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make a 1 thread version of UML that does not need to > be able to support user level programs.
Why? Did you ever read Rik van Reil's list of the dumbest patches he's ever seen? This is the first entry in the list: http://www.surriel.com/potm/apr2001.shtml > So I don't care about systemcall interception or anything like that, *blink* *blink* Ok, you want user mode linux, but you don't want it to actually run user processes, nor do want it to be able to intercept system calls. Um... What's left? > I just want a copy of > UML that gets a basic kernel environment running (where I could call > some kernel functions like sys_read or sys_open and then exit) that > never calls fork on the host. vfork, maybe? Have you tried just loading a module into the existing User Mode Linux? > Sorry if this all sounds a bit weird, it's for a research project and > we are trying to port UML to an environment that only supports single > threaded operation. Define "port". (Have you looked at mmu-less linux? Are you saying you haven't got a timer interrupt and can't fake up some kind of green-threads approach like people managed to do under _DOS_?) Rob ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
