Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-02-02 10:03:16) > I'd rather avoid such kind of autodetection
Yes, I understand. > 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? Precisely. In fact, I did this for exactly the same reason (use the task store to build a ramdisk). The task store isn't usable in it's current form (i.e. it wants a PID, but when we need the ramdisk the proc server isn't around). Unfortunately I didn't get the task store to work, even with quite some patching. So back to the kernel part. We need to create a task, and then copy the data to it. There is `copyoutmap', but it doesn't actually implement the functionality we need. What the elf loader does is to create a thread inside the task, and to the copying from within that thread. My current patch is simply the least intrusive way of implementing what I needed b/c I wasn't sure how to do this properly. I'll send the patch as follow-up for the sake of completeness. Justus
