From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 11:53:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C00837B699 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:52:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0PJqrn26990 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:52:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:52:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: SYSINIT for userland? Message-ID: <20010125115253.T26076@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone done any work for FreeBSD or GNU C that allows for SYSINITs in userland, meaning just having to specify a function and arg to be called at a certain time during program startup? I know you can do some evil magic with overloading special shared object symbols, but it is evil magic. :) Anyone know of another OS that supports this? Any standards for it on the way? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message