From b43ea6ca9b24067ee5d4775383a09c46233119df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:29:39 +0100 Subject: Categorize FAQs more --- faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn (limited to 'faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn') diff --git a/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn b/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8702470a..00000000 --- a/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title=" Could it be possible to have a system installation where you can -dual-boot using either the [[Linux]] kernel, or the GNU Hurd, so that -everything but the kernel is shared?]] - -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 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, -but you need a separate installation of the userspace suited for the Linux -kernel, or the GNU Hurd. -- cgit v1.2.3