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Message-ID: <7579f7fb0706230954n20430e8bq4c229f72e1c32bcf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:54:08 -0700
From: "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@...il.com>
To: "Torsten Duwe" <duwe@....de>
Cc: "Grozdan Nikolov" <microchip@...llo.be>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
>
> > 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.
>
>
Err, uh, no- I believe that Solaris development for this at the very
least predates even 0.59 linux- I think it was Joe Provino at Sun ECD
near Boston who gave us a working prototype in early 1989.
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