Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:49:24 +0000


Hi!

> > Anyone working on the Microkernel implementation
> > of Linux? Specially in the area of seperating the process
> > and the file management activities out of the kernel.
>
> You have to remember that the source code for Linux is available.
>
> This means we can have all the advantages of modularity at the

Not *all* of them. On vsta, you could do

( killall keyboard; sleep 1; keyboard ) &

to change your keymap. On linux you need special tools for managing
modules and are not protected from module bugs. Try developing filesystem
on production box.... You can do that on u-kernels.
Pavel

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