From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 21:06:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA14535 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 21:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14529 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 21:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id VAA03239 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 21:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA19689; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:03:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199605110403.WAA19689@rover.village.org> To: Matthew James Marnell Subject: Re: Java support in BSD kernel!? Cc: Jake Hamby , java-port-bsd@portia.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 10 May 1996 18:02:51 EDT Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:03:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : :>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