Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:58:32 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about a word "userland" Message-ID: <3FE30408.1000204@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20031219134910.GC5502@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <000901c3c635$3eb40f60$2e01a8c0@jose> <20031219134910.GC5502@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Ken Smith wrote: >On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:37:28PM +0800, Jose Liang wrote: > > > >>That is about this word: userland. Well, because my English is not vary >>well, so I translate this document by some tools sometimes, but there are no >>any word about "userland". I tried to find a solution to solve this problem, >>but I didn't get any effective answer. I guess this word means "system >>environment that user's set up", Just guess! Am I wrong? Could anybody tell >>me? If I'm wrong, plese tell me what it means after all. >> >> > >"userland" would be the pieces of FreeBSD that are not inside of the >kernel. Changes to a device driver would be things that are inside >the kernel. If the mv(1) command changed that would be a userland >change. > >Does that help? > Would a good "rule of thumb" be - if you have to rebuild the kernel after changes for it to be useful, it's not userland, everything else IS userland? Just curious.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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