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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:32:02PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> The kernel is not a POSIX C environment.  It's not just a program that
> happens to do special things.  I know that Linux goes to great lengths
> to support this concept,

That's not true at all.  The Liux kernel enviroment is very different from
normal userland programming and there's not move towards changing that,
quite contrary.