site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Jun 20, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: 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. 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. = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Mike Smith writes: 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. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com