Kai: go grab a copy of EROS from the website at www.eros-os.org. This is
exactly how EROS is structured. In the EROS case, the kernel moves a sequential
byte range; the kernel itself knows nothing of argument structure.
>And I see no reason why one
>couldn't build a perfectly compatible POSIX environment on top of that.
One can -- a POSIX environment in fact existed on KeyKOS, the predecessor of
EROS.
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph. D.
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Email: shapj@us.ibm.com
Phone: +1 914 784 7085 (Tieline: 863)
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