Brainstorming

This section is mainly for my own benefit to remember my bad ideas, but is an idea of things I might consider covering:

• “Magic conf.d”, i.e., if /etc/foo.conf doesn't exist, return a read-only file with the concatenation of /etc/foo.conf.d/*
• Running sufficiently privileged processes at ring 0 to elimiinate the overhead of syscalls.
• A filesystem containing the Linux source tree, that when edited tries to recompile and uses Ksplice to patch the running kernel.
• Making two or more kernels coordinate port assignments, so they can share a public IP address without a NAT.
• Kernel modules in Python. (This would be a lot of work; I don't intend to do it.)
• Process migration for load balancing, by proxying syscalls to the original machine.
• There's this blog post, Re-routing System Calls (in OS X). But I want to read Mac OS X Internals first
• Something with binfmt? Applications compiled for something else?