Subject: Re: Per-process personalities in emulations
To: None <niklas@appli.se>
From: Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/10/1995 14:54:29
Blush!
I hope I haven't confused too many people of my (ab)use of the term
"exec package". When UTSLing, I found out that what I call exec
package and what it in reality is doesn't quite agree. So I have to
invent another term for my use. Basically it's rather an extension to
the execsw (for now I've only needed a name field). Anyway my
intention is to be able to tell exec to use the ELF loading code and
the SVR4 emulation, or ELF & Linux, or even ELF & NetBSD... So it's
perhaps better to call it "load package" or something similar. What
do you think? Is there perhaps a good term already in use?
PS For you who wonder what an "exec package" really is, it's a per
process structure containing info on the specific executable being
executed. It is a transient thing dropped as soon as we're up and
running the new binary.
Niklas
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