Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:43:06 -0400 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:45:27AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > No. A message pass is a function call is a message pass.
I think the only real difference between a function call and a message pass is that you can send a message asynchronously from the kernel to a user application, while you need a different mechanism if you're using system calls[1].
OG.
[1] Blocking syscalls waiting for the event, read() on fds, signals, whatever.
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