From: Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>
To: Vikas Sodhani <vikas_sodhani@oryxa.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml and linux kernel programming
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:55:13 +0300 (MSK) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111032347570.20684-100000@ontil.ihep.su> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BE2B882.2D176F44@oryxa.com>
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Vikas Sodhani wrote:
> Hi, I am just learning the OCaml language and was hoping to receive some
> advice on the possibilities and trade offs of writing linux kernel
> modules using ocaml.
You can try userspace system call gateway (don't remember the name of
this patch... Winmodem people are playing with it right now, so you can
ask them).
> I am trying to write a module that sits in between the file system and a
> hard disk device driver. The code would interpret the calls from the
> file system and relay calls back to the hard disk device driver.
> Essentially the code would be a layer over the hard disk device driver.
Kernel space modules are very limited. :(
> Is this possible using OCaml? What are the trade offs of using ocaml
> versus c. I would appreciate any advice or help.
Btw., 2ALL: what about "Caml OS"? It can be a binfmt-misc module for
Linux, and even an infrastructure for a syscall gateway for Caml kernel
drivers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-03 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 15:15 Vikas Sodhani
2001-11-03 20:55 ` Vitaly Lugovsky [this message]
2001-11-05 10:06 ` Xavier Leroy
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2001-09-05 9:33 Ohad Rodeh
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