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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:07:40 -0700
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: execute a user process in the kernel
Message-ID:  <20040925100740.GA814@empiric.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpekkrwsca.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <BAY1-F10eZZfm95LyRk00055aa3@hotmail.com> <16722.59709.451226.932084@guru.mired.org> <xzpekkrwsca.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> You could, of course, write a kernel API for creating processes from
> scratch.  They'd still need a parent, but you can use init(8) (pid 1)
> for that.

If we were to implement POSIX spawn(), we'd need something like this.
So this may be worth looking at.

BMS



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