Re: Java in OS?
Paul H. Hargrove (hargrove@sccm.stanford.edu)
Sun, 05 May 1996 20:11:41 -0700
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 neat =
at
> all to have Java in the kernel, for it has STRICTLY NOTHING to do the=
re.
> There is no reason whatsoever to implement that.
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-space
Java interpreter not a kernel-space one.
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