> ...
>
> > Maybe this is silly and there exist services that do exactly this, in
> > userspace, in a safe way, and as fast as a kernel trap. Sorry if so, but i
> > think many people dont see the way out [the GGI people for example].
>
> You can just use another selector/segment instead of the default datasegment
> just as WINE does? Ok, will only work on i386 and friends. ...
> (See modify_ldt system call.)
Which is no good. Linux should be as cross-platform as possible,
right? Then we need a uniform graphics API.
Jon Taylor = <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu> | <http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~taylorj>
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