Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:56:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Putting Perl into Linux Kernel |
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Hello Sean, I personally do not want to see perl dumped into the kernel space . But I sure would like to know of a project (I thought I heard something once before, but ...) to set it up as a daemon , ie: all libs & ... aleady loaded . Yes I am aware of the apache module . Is there such a project ? Tia, JimL
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > Seriously. _You_ were kidding, weren't you? > > I didn't say I would use it. But I bet there are people who would find > > a use for it. > > For example getting some kernel konfiguration data from some strange > > database or LDAP or whatever. Or having some simple scripts for > > autotuning depending on load&co which are changeable by the > > non-kernel-hacker. > > Most of this stuff can be done in userspace and should be. But I am > > always amazed by the strange uses perl (and linux) get into. > > Java with all its problems could be used for this too.
> Speaking as a full-time professional perl hacker I have to say this > just isn't needed. If we expose enough through /proc, any half-decent > perl programmer will be able to auto-tune to their hearts content _in > userspace_.
> Perl is great, but lets not be silly. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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