Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> There's a problem even with the lkm approach:
> 
> You only can load LKMs during single user mode.

Sorry, that was my ignorant other-BSD background showing
through.  I won't get too carried away with just how amazing
that concept is.

> And I repeat: on the kind of systems I talk about, rodents can and
> will be hot-swapped.

Na und?  Sounds like you want a megaprotocol rodent translation
engine then, whether it lives in userspace or kernel space.  
 
>         -is

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