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Comment by chillaxtian

i'm confused as to why the article implies the kernel is serving the shell.

isn't the shell usually a program running in userspace? that interprets commands, and prints characters on the screen, etc, in userspace? i didn't think the kernel was involved at all, except to receive exec syscalls.

parent chillaxtian 9 years ago

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