[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[ChrisQ]

On 05/31/12 12:06, JKB wrote:

>
> 	You cannot as some VMS functionnalities should be written in
> 	kernelland (with an entry point in userland like regular libc).
>
> 	JKB
>

Most of libc should be kernel independent and the only places it would
need to use kernel services are the i/o and things like memory management,
but that shouldn't preclude the implementation of a vms file system on top
of a flat disk structure. For example, the unix file system is just a
stream of bytes, on which it should be possible to overlay any structure
you like in the layers above...

Regards,

Chris