Re: Processes running path
Re: Processes running path
- Subject: Re: Processes running path
- From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:22:48 -0400 (EDT)
Mike Smith writes:
>
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> > Mike Smith writes:
> >>
> >> I'm a little puzzled by this. The kernel makes it easy to run
> >> processes,
> >
> > As far as I can tell, it is far from easy to start run a process from
> > inside the kernel.
>
> I didn't say that it did. Starting a process from inside the kernel
> is a bad idea;
> much of our runtime depends on context that is only available from a
> session,
> and sessions are only associated with other processes.
>
> The kernel makes it easy to run processes by providing handy hooks known
> as system calls, which are called from userspace to start new processes.
;)
Whoops. I was reading between the lines, and assuming the original
poster's objection to a helper was that it was difficult for his kext
to restart it if it disappeared. Maybe that's not his problem.
Reading it again, I see that he never said why he didn't want all
those processes running.
Drew
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