Re: [line-devel] Information Request

[Erik P. <epa...@cs...>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:06:34PM +1100, Chris Hocking wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am a newbie to this list so please bear with me! ;)
> 
> I just want to ask a question regarding the compadibility and capacity of
> Line. I am making (or administrating really) a Open Source OS project. One
> of the functions of the OS is to natively emulate Linux/Unix functions.
> Could the Line source be useful in that regard?
> 

Yes, but probably not that useful.

LINE would be useful from the angle of seeing just what is needed to load a 
Linux ELF binary and execute it, and servicing the system calls it makes. 

If you were writing the OS from scratch, you could implement a lot of what LINE
needed right in the OS, instead of having to hack it on top of Win32.

Make sure your OS can service the software interrupts the Linux binaries will
make, and ideally allow those to be services by another user-level process.

Another really cool call that Windows has is being able to allocate memory in
another processes address space. 

Good luck!

-Erik