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* Syscall tracing, sandboxing, and monitoring

* KVM device MMIO emulation

* OS personality emulation (like WSL but doesn't require root)

* New synchronization primitives to user space (like XOK's wake predicates)

* A lot of others..

Modern BPF is the exploring the same cornerstones as exokernels and really opens up a whole bunch of concepts that haven't been seen in mainstream kernels, particularly if non privileged users are allowed to invoke it.

parent monocasa 7 years ago

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