[justincormack]

Yes, I have a side project to experiment with scripting the OS with Lua [1] - it has enough functionality to bring up a system (networking, mounts, namespaces etc) without any other code.

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall

[fst01]

And using "Scriptable operating systems with Lua[1]" there is no userspace needed?

[1] http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N80603 [2] http://2014.splashcon.org/track/dls14-papers#Proceedings

[justincormack]

Well, you could use it for that in theory yes, though no one has tried yet as far as I know...