On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:03:16AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'd rather avoid such kind of autodetection: if the payload happens > to be an ELF file, gnumach will do things with it that we didn't > necessarily wanted. Some time ago (5 Sep 2011), while working on the > initrd part for the Debian installer, I thought about introducing a > data-task-create command, which would tell gnumach to just load the file > into a task at vaddr 0, without doing anything else about it. That way, > userland would be able to just kill the task when it does not need the > data any more. AIUI this is the same kind of usage that you'd have, > what do you think?
Personally, I like this better. -- Richard Braun