Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luca Veraldi" <> | Subject | Re: Efficient IPC mechanism on Linux | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:39:28 +0200 |
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> hrm, you may find things related to the Password-Capability system and > the Walnut kernel of interest - these systems take this kind of IPC to > the extreme :) (ahhh... research OS hw & sw - except you *do not* want > to see the walnut source - it makes ppl want to crawl up and cry). > > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rdp/fetch/castro-thesis.ps > > and check the Readme.txt at > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/courseware/cse4333/rdp-ma terial/ > for stuff on Multi and password-capabilities. > > interesting stuff, the Castro thesis does do some comparisons to FreeBSD > (1.1 amazingly enough) - although the number of real world applications > on these systems is minimal (and in the current state impossible - > nobody can remember how to get userspace going on Walnut, we may have > broken it) and so real-world comparisons just don't really happen these > days. Maybe after a rewrite (removing some brain-damage of the original > design).
Thanks. It's really very interesting...
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