Linux Kernel contains only C code?

[Alice Ferrazzi]

Hello Sekar,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:58 PM, inventsekar <inventsekar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, ...
>
> 1. May i know, other than C language, is there any other programming
> language is/are used inside Linux Kernel?!?!
> is there any c++, Perl, python programs are used for peculiar tasks inside
> Linux Kernel?!?!
>

Yes, there are some scripts made in Perl, Python and other languages.
Most of them are under tools/ or scripts/ or documentation/

> 2. I believe some assembly language and shell scripting also used.. how can
> I check them? Can you point me which part of the source code contains the
> assembly and shell scripting

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?l=assembly
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?l=Shell

I think you can see in the left down menu bar also other languages.
Still, some language doesn't come out, but you can change assembly with Perl.
You can also just find the file extensions with the find command or
using git ls-files.

find . -type f -name "*.pl"
find . -type f -name "*.py"

or

git ls-files "*.pl"
git ls-files "*.py"

thanks,
Alice


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Thanks,
Alice Ferrazzi

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