On Mon Apr 13, 2020 at 2:06 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
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> On Monday, 13 April 2020 19:42:17 UTC+1, Elias Naur wrote:
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> > The project is an experiment in a larger exploration of the question:
> > "what if the operating
> > system process abstraction were a virtual machine?
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> Interesting.
>
> BTW, have you seen gVisor <
https://gvisor.dev/docs/>? It takes a
> different
> approach to the problem: emulating the syscall interface on top of a
> running kernel, rather than on top of (real or emulated) bare metal. I
> was
> reminded of it since it also "pretends to be a Linux kernel" - and is
> written in Go.
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Yes. gVisor is similar in many ways and I hope to re-use parts of it,
for example their Go network stack implementation.
The main difference is that I want to avoid the Linux kernel, or any
kernel for that matter.
-- elias