May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:24 AM

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