Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:49:10 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Jose Liang <jose@jose.idv.tw> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about a word "userland" Message-ID: <20031219134910.GC5502@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <000901c3c635$3eb40f60$2e01a8c0@jose>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:37:28PM +0800, Jose Liang wrote:
> That is about this word: userland. Well, because my English is not vary
> well, so I translate this document by some tools sometimes, but there are no
> any word about "userland". I tried to find a solution to solve this problem,
> but I didn't get any effective answer. I guess this word means "system
> environment that user's set up", Just guess! Am I wrong? Could anybody tell
> me? If I'm wrong, plese tell me what it means after all.
"userland" would be the pieces of FreeBSD that are not inside of the
kernel. Changes to a device driver would be things that are inside
the kernel. If the mv(1) command changed that would be a userland
change.
Does that help?
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