On 11/12, Gavin Ray wrote:
Hi all,
Apologies if questions/non-patch content aren't allowed on the mailing
list,
I've not used the Linux kernel lists before so not certain of the
rules/etiquette.
I watched the talk from LPC, "The journey of BPF from restricted C
language
towards extended and safe C" recently and many of the properties seemed
desirable. Particularly things like bounds-checking and verifiable
locking.
Is it possible to use BPF as a general-purpose language for writing
software?
If not, is it planned for the future? (Or maybe it's not technically
possible)
I'm aware of at least the following:
https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf
https://github.com/qmonnet/rbpf
These projects are developed outside of the kernel and provide a
more-or-less-general-purpose BPF runtime.
Would be pretty neat, in my opinion.
Thanks and best regards,
--
Gavin
(P.S. Will I receive replies to this message?)
