From 38368072b37bf73dda26dac536e4aa6cf13c67e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:41:16 +0100 Subject: system_call: New. --- faq/sharing_the_user_space.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'faq') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3