> If we are going to start talking about kernel daemons for languages,
We aren't. We're talking about support for new executable formats,
specifically those that need interpreters.
> how about coming up with a generic style for it. While the original
We already have it. We just need to use it.
> What are the advantages of having such a creature as part of
> the kernel anyway?
The same as the advantages of being able to exec() shell scripts.
There's one "interpreted" executable format that we could probably support
right now: the MS-DOS .EXE format. We'd need to invoke dosemu as
"interpreter".
MfG Kai