Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265706AbTFSGcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:32:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265709AbTFSGcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:32:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:25834 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265706AbTFSGce (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:32:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF15C41.2020908@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:46:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davidm@hpl.hp.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: common name for the kernel DSO References: <16112.47509.643668.116939@napali.hpl.hp.com> <16113.22348.748334.416581@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16113.22348.748334.416581@napali.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 26 David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>>On 18 Jun 2003 23:18:02 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" said: > > > HPA> It's a pretty ugly name, quite frankly, since it doesn't explain what > HPA> it is a gate from or to. linux-syscall.so.1 or linux-kernel.so.1 > HPA> would make a lot more sense. > > Umh, it does say _linux_-gate, so I think it's pretty > self-explanatory. I considered linux-kernel.so, but think it would > cause a lot of confusion vis-a-vis, say, kernel32.dll (I didn't write > that, did I??). I'm not terribly fond of linux-syscall, but I could > live with it. > There is a lot of "linux" in userspace too, though. ld-linux.so.* to start out with... -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/