Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:03:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com> Cc: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, java-port-bsd@portia.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java support in BSD kernel!? Message-ID: <199605110403.WAA19689@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 10 May 1996 18:02:51 EDT
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: :>A friend told me that Linux would be "supporting Java in the kernel", : :>which seemed questionable since for licensing reasons it would be : :>impossible to embed the Java run-time into a GNU kernel like Linux (or : :>FreeBSD for that matter)! : : The support in the Linux kernel for Java is the same kind of support : for shell script execution by recognizing the #! at the beginning : of the file. No more. Well, the idea is being floated on the linux lists and someone has a sample implementation. It is exactly as Matthew says. There are those that are opposed to this hack on kernel bloat grounds. Warner
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