Re: Java in OS?

Herbert Wengatz (hwe@uebemc.siemens.de)
Tue, 07 May 1996 15:26:23 +0200

+> Thomas Quinot wrote:
+> >=20
+> > Mike Black (mblack@csihq.com) =E9crit :
+> >=20
+> > > Is there any possibility of Linux also doing this? It'd really =
be neat if
+> > > Linux could be first-on-the-market.
+> >=20
+> > Java is totally irrelevant to the Linux kernel. It would not be ne=
at at
+> > all to have Java in the kernel, for it has STRICTLY NOTHING to do =
there.
+> > There is no reason whatsoever to implement that.
+>=20
+> Actually a binfmt_java.o module that would be invoked if the=20
+> kernel recognized a magic number at the start of a Java byte-code
+> executable would make sense. It would, of course, invoke a user-spa=
ce
+> Java interpreter not a kernel-space one.

Uuuuughhhh! Aaaaaagggghhhh!

I'll NEVER go and include this security-hole into my kernel!!!!!!!

:-((((((((

There are already enough into my system! :-(

Regards,

Herbert
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