userland boot time

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Tue Jan 22 00:57:34 CET 2008


Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> copy-on-write tricks the maemo guys did with maemo-launcher (it's pure evil.
> they literally have a process pre-spawned that has done PARTs of the gtk init -
> everything that invovles reading config files, font info off disk etc. but not
> the x connection. then they basically message that and fork then dlopen() the
> final process and jump to main - i think they actually jump to a special maemo

"undump" ? That basically "resumes" a core dump.

- Werner



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