A question about a word "userland"

[Eric Anderson]

Ken Smith wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:37:28PM +0800, Jose Liang wrote:
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>>That is about this word: userland. Well, because my English is not vary
>>well, so I translate this document by some tools sometimes, but there are no
>>any word about "userland". I tried to find a solution to solve this problem,
>>but I didn't get any effective answer. I guess this word means "system
>>environment that user's set up", Just guess! Am I wrong? Could anybody tell
>>me? If I'm wrong, plese tell me what it means after all.
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>"userland" would be the pieces of FreeBSD that are not inside of the
>kernel.  Changes to a device driver would be things that are inside
>the kernel.  If the mv(1) command changed that would be a userland
>change.
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>Does that help?
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Would a good "rule of thumb" be - if you have to rebuild the kernel 
after changes for it to be useful, it's not userland, everything else IS 
userland?

Just curious..

Eric

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