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Re:Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise? by bunnycorn on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:50AM (#18283332)
You can already.

Just use Linux or something similar and use the lower APIs.

E.g. don't mount a filesystem, use the block device directly in your app.

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Re:Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise? by improv32 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:11PM (#18285877)
Wouldn't that add a ton of overhead, if nothing is done in kernelspace and everything gets squeezed through syscalls
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