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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-29 13:41:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-29 13:41:16 +0100 |
| commit | 38368072b37bf73dda26dac536e4aa6cf13c67e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 383fb519f01899f394dafb52052227773a31e964 /faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn | |
| parent | 6de855d9a8f8c25ffe6ad118012bd9a74e6c13fe (diff) | |
system_call: New.
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diff --git a/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn b/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn index 7d09ccc0..ec880827 100644 --- a/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn +++ b/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ everything but the kernel is shared? *Answer:* Given that both Linux and GNU Hurd are using the [[ELF]] binary format, this could indeed be made possible, if all programs agreed to rely on only one abstraction layer, for example the standard C library ([[glibc]]). -(Additionally, for example for system calls that are not covered by glibc +(Additionally, for example for [[system call]]s that are not covered by glibc calls, you'd need to be able to reliably trap and emulate these.) However, Linux' and the GNU Hurd's [[ABI]]'s have sufficiently diverged, so that this is not easy to do. That's why you can't currently install a system in this way, |