<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 5:16 PM segaloco via TUHS <<a href="mailto:tuhs@tuhs.org">tuhs@tuhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Given that anything that obeys the ABI and has assembler entries to the kernel<br>
can request services, it seems to me it would be possible to stand up a<br>
user-land without C being present. Have any UNIXen ever done this after the<br>
advent of C?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">u-root is a tiny busybox like environment written entirely in go. It goes one step farther: it demand compiles each binary as it's needed. The compiler is small enough for it to be a space win and fast enough that the system performance is adequate for it's primary purpose: using Linux to boot Linux...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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