site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com 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 _______________________________________________ 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com