New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

Dan Melomedman dan at a.mx.devonit.com
Mon Apr 5 12:34:24 PDT 2004


Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> Call me naive, but wouldn't it be easier to write device drivers in Forth?
> Or is it difficult to interface with C and OS level code?

It should be easier to write many things in Forth. IIRC ficl, which was
used to write the FreeBSD bootloader was designed to be embeddable in C.

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