Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. | Date | 22 Jun 1999 16:06:16 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.03.9906222222210.4395-100000@mirkwood.nl.linux.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> wrote: >[I've thought about this long and hard and I've finally come >up with a proper response to Linus' argument] > >On 20 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> In short: message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS >> is just an excercise in computer science masturbation. It may >> feel good, but you don't actually get anything DONE. Nobody has >> ever shown that it made sense in the real world. > >It's not about physical message passing in the actual implementation, >what's really happening can be 'hidden' by clever programming by the >people who built the OS. > >The real issue here is paradigms. The classical "everything's >a file" broke down with the advent of networking, sockets and >non-blocking reads.
I think you're going to have to enumerate some of the cases where ``everything is a file'' broke down, and then you're going to need to enumerate some of the reasons why ``everything is a message'' is not exactly the same as ``everything is a file'' (aside from ``message'' being spelled differently than ``file'', which most people have already figured out.)
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