Re: Virtual Machines, JVM in kernel, hot-swapped kernel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:18:20 +0100 (BST)

> Actually, at one point I thought about a JVM (or other bytecode interpreter,
> e.g. iconx) in the kernel for the purpose of loadable packet filters. For

The BPF filters in 2.1.x and in BSD are very much byte code. BPF isnt turing
complete and doesnt do a lot, but it is also quite possible to convert it to
native code. Right now we dont do that but the hooks exist in the kernel

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