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diff --git a/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn b/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d09ccc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + +*Question:* 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? + +*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 +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. |