i have what may turn out to be a nice idea but very hard to implement...
i'm going to write a program and what i'd like is to have a kernel that
takes care of memory management and other boring stuff and then have separate
modules/plugins that actually do things (so there could be a networking
module which handled all networking functions, a sound module which handled
sound... etc). Sort of like the kernel and plugins for gimp/premiere/photoshop/
whatever.
the question being... how? (cos somehow the kernel would need to know what
is in each module without having that info hard coded into it) i've read
the Linux Kernel Guide and it says the kernel modifies the addresses of it's
modules so they can find the kernel's functions which seems nice and complex.
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