Re: Efficient IPC mechanism on Linux

From: Luca Veraldi
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 09:36:59 EST


> 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...

Bye,
Luca
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