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Handling page faults in user space (2014)

• vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  Linux is the new Mach. This got merged recently. It's better than the old hack of using solutions like libsigsegv to overload SIGSEGV handlers. That it took nearly 25 years to get it should tell you a thing or two about monolithic kernels, though.
  • glandium 11y ago
    Would you have a link to the merge itself? I was following the various iterations of this work, but missed it landing, and am now wondering what it ended up looking like.
    • vezzy-fnord 11y ago
      The central commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=86039bd3b4e6a1129318cbfed4e0a6e001656635 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....