Userland

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userland

Usage: n.

userland: n.

Anywhere outside the kernel. "That code belongs in userland." This term has been in common use among Unix kernel hackers since at least 1985, and may have have originated in that community. The earliest sighting was reported from the usenet group net.unix-wizards.

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Sources

Source: userland, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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