[Ksummit-2008-discuss] proposal for discussion..

Grant Grundler grundler at google.com
Mon Aug 25 12:37:56 PDT 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
...
> One possible solution would be to provide userspace libraries with the
> kernel. libkernel.so.2.6.29 or somesuch..

Or have the same maintainer own both kernel and user space. e.g. perfmon
and pfmon+libpfmon (Stephane Eranian)

I think delivering APIs in one library adds alot of risk to that one library.
Feels like it would roll too often and carry too many changes once distro's
try to support their users.

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
| Indeed.  There is even the school of thought that having a "libkernel"
| supporting the lower layers of what is now glibc would be a good idea.
| This has all kinds of pros and cons, of course.

glibc is a good example of why one would NOT want to put everything
in one lib.

grant

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