[Lguest] "plug-ins" for devices

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On 10/15/07, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
>         This is something I've been pondering, too.  I've wondered if we can come up
> with something sane, such as unknown options automatically loading a shared
> library in /usr/local/lib/lguest/.  Then the fun part is creating the hooks
> for that shared library to grab at the lguest internals.
>
>         This would let people throw around extensions without us having to make the
> core code an infinite ball of hair...
>
> Thoughts?
>

I've got some ideas -- but I'm not sure how they'll play out.  I'll
experiment with them in the context of adding my 9p launcher
extensions and see if I can come up with something reasonable.  If
anyone has any ideas here, I'd be happy to try them out.

            -eric