In relation to Android and Bionic, I think the following message from the same thread is more relevant: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/5/162 http://lkml.org/lkml

In relation to Android and Bionic, I think the following message from the same thread is more relevant: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/5/162 http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/5/162 (in general, the thread was about kernel modules - this message explicitly mentions user-space)