Re: How innovative is Linux?

[Torsten Duwe]

On Saturday 23 June 2007, you wrote:

> hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...]
Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user 
space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an 
in-kernel linker and symbol table, IIRC.

	Torsten
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