On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:21:42PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <1gvvpbx.qbr351ckyzb3M%manu@netbsd.org>,
> Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Working on COMPAT_LINUX, I discovered a new Linux feature (kernel
> >2.6.11.1) called the vsyscall page. This is similar to Darwin's
> >commpage: a page of functions mapped by the kernel in userspace:

...

> No, this wheel is all yours :-) And while you are spinning it, it would
> be nice to have this facility or similar in NetBSD.

Sounds like SVR2 shared library support.....
Or, IIRC, the shared code that RSX/11M used to have!

Why would you want to map a page of code into userspace?

	David

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