From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 15:11:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75AFEB8FEDC for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2016 15:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E90327F7 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2016 15:11:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98A5794FB for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2016 15:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/98A5794FB; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: What does user land mean? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <2485.194.255.20.11.1467403918.squirrel@holgerdanske.com> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <24b2a445-7dbb-cf7d-1507-b34996e92b60@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 16:10:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XwQRDMcoLvxXUV2bEKGPf7GsdMWP8hF5X" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:11:03 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --XwQRDMcoLvxXUV2bEKGPf7GsdMWP8hF5X Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="5rVvcriaXfsUWh9BQdULKMBLllcIScrmm" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <24b2a445-7dbb-cf7d-1507-b34996e92b60@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: What does user land mean? References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <2485.194.255.20.11.1467403918.squirrel@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: --5rVvcriaXfsUWh9BQdULKMBLllcIScrmm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/07/2016 13:36, Orville Jones wrote: > I started using FreeBSD in March 2016 just to see what it was about. > I am slowly getting up to speed on learning to do things the FreeBSD wa= y. > What do people mean when they refer to "user land" ? It means specifically things that are not the kernel, or things that are not executed in the kernel context. Anything useful you can do with a computer will be done in user-land -- interacting directly with the kernel is a pretty rare thing. Cheers, Matthew --5rVvcriaXfsUWh9BQdULKMBLllcIScrmm-- --XwQRDMcoLvxXUV2bEKGPf7GsdMWP8hF5X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXd9mDXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATvroQAJOW4S36Ax78ZHRNlnh9+Q34 3aJuyh9Rixnaz06uCWbIlbsXevpoI9kcv71KOeEfiv9wh9nH21j97BhaSQ2LbbqR Ue+5dIn18HUBkr6YSh/zEQWdQM0Khy3DVsK9GieQFSQ3T4ShtysnPgraE/n4Y8dc sDfgo5Y7SyZE9t+cn6QETyW26B3kvTrvuOwcv1P+O1ot3n0bEmkYQP2EBDoASi8G Cjigx6YARTP/XN/RW7CRfoAu6Q+3eRgAPWtzUkqJ2Uc4idlM5j0C72m9fBcL1vnF 584SgByAGVBsLvo3u79MrdzxGReZ9MSPSiajcDEb5Y9QziQPmlv5uS+KpsKLaR1O u22DiMQSPACZroQWgVFA0AhZ/bmMpFLFTNu27o7NqmVAZowOVOsgOa5N2RiXWinx cnZIbGLTYFSqtl242seu3wH0TTyjCSYjf+FIwiHKj5JGx5YVr4Udtqxwqqsvwx4o baL4w94QCZWaTHMh/hyR5znHuqHorgRZhxIzqcDcqfyqDv4b32gW+RM5v7V1cIbI pioGVbAuVlxdMvd8BazD2OcYumEF6sZOD5ECDnmQaDmSFdb6NzLY8IwU5V2g3WbU CjC3aln4DLGG5nqi/nXMQe1+liSQG59GBeixolWlngD8q9tzdJyhp2HK0Eype/CT inUE3pWDWTkzkRB9BR5M =DAAV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XwQRDMcoLvxXUV2bEKGPf7GsdMWP8hF5X--