There are two main options for running a program intended for one oper- ating system on a different one. We can modify the program to use the API of the new OS. Alternatively, we can provide a compatibility layer in the new OS, transparent to the program, without changing the application. HelenOS ecosystem already allows the first. This thesis focuses on supporting the lat- ter. This thesis describes the kernel binary interface and analyses existing solutions on Linux, Windows, and specialised systems. Then we describe our prototype that transparently traps syscalls and emulates them. The emula- tion is implemented fully in userspace (except for a small kernel trampoline), and its code is executed in the context of the original application. The result allows running some of the unmodified Linux programs (focusing on GCC toolchain) on the x86_64 instance of the HelenOS system. 1

The purpose of this thesis is to consider the rigth way how to make a user space extension of RedirFS, which works as a Linux kernel module and implement it. There is described a model of user and kernel spaces used in Linux and how this two spaces can communicate with each other. There are several communication mechanisms described with a description of use. Bandwidth and latency tests for all these mechanisms are implemented. Measurement results are presented and the suitable mechanism is chosen. The second part of the thesis is focused on redirctl and urfs. The first solution represents the RedirFS control tool, the second is the implementation of user space filters.