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A loadable kernel module (LKM) is an executable library that extends the capabilities of a running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system.LKMs are typically used to add support for new hardware (as device drivers) and/or filesystems, or for adding system calls.
The File System Access Utilities (fs-utils) is a subproject built with the rump libraries. It aims to have a set of utilities to access and modify a file system image without having to mount it. The fs-utils does not require a superuser account to access the image or device.
In order to prevent bloating, if a function is available in both the ReactOS and Linux kernel, the Linux implementation is used. Functions are implemented using Linux loadable kernel modules, so they can be loaded and unloaded easily. Longene has two sets of system calls and their corresponding tables: a Windows syscall set and a Linux syscall set.
A NetWare Loadable Module [1] [2] [3] (NLM) is a loadable kernel module (a binary code module) that can be loaded into Novell's NetWare operating system. NLMs can implement hardware drivers, server functions (e.g. clustering), applications (e.g. GroupWise ), system libraries or utilities.
All device drivers, file systems, etc still run in kernel mode, just like in a monolithic kernel (see hybrid kernel). And how exactly are Windows's loadable kernel drivers different from LKM? The fact that Windows doesn't call them "kernel modules" doesn't mean it doesn't have a similar concept.
The proc filesystem (procfs) is a special filesystem in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information in a hierarchical file-like structure, providing a more convenient and standardized method for dynamically accessing process data held in the kernel than traditional tracing methods or direct access to kernel memory.
In Linux kernel it's called loadable kernel module (LKM). In OpenVMS, it's called shareable image. [2] As an alternative to dynamic linking, a static library is included into the program executable so that the library is not required at run-time.
This category contains articles documenting various Linux kernel features. Most features in the Linux kernel can be compiled as loadable kernel modules, or can be statically linked into the kernel binary. For features that are bundled separately from the Linux kernel, please see Category:Third-party Linux kernel modules.