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How the LKP works

How the LKP works

The LKP provides a Linux kernel interface to UnixWare 7. The LKP is not an emulator; rather, Linux kernel functions are mapped into equivalent UnixWare 7 kernel functions. The LKP runtime environment, from an application point-of-view, is the same as as a Caldera OpenLinux runtime environment -- Linux applications do not ``know'' that they are running on a UnixWare 7 kernel. The LKP includes standard Linux libraries, runtime components and user commands.

The main differences between native Linux and the LKP are in the kernel and data structures themselves, which are based on UnixWare 7 for the LKP.


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