> You really don't have any idea what the idea of a micro kernerl entails.
> Go read _Modern_Operating_Systems_ by Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
Thanks pal, I've read it last summer. Now I've been reading Tanembaum's
articles on Amoeba, and also some stuff on Mach, Sprite, V, and Plan 9. I
have quite a good idea what micro-kernels and distributed operating
systems are. AND I'M NOT SAYING HERE A MICRO-KERNEL IS A DISTRIBUTED OS. I
hate to be misinterpreted.
Ah, thanks for the kind words.
> > I'm not _stating_ Linux is micro-kernel, I'm just looking at the minimal
> > kernel and module loading stuff and saying it looks like a micro-kernel
> > approach, which is good. Boot a minimal kernel, load the rest of the OS
> > after that.
Read that? I only made a brief comparison of ONE GENERAL ASPECT, which is
module loading. I know micro-kernels load servers to implement an OS's
interface to binary apps. Maybe that was just a poor comparison.
Anyway, the whole idea was "Is there a way to safely debug modules?".
Sorry if everybody knows this is unfeasible/unportable/un_whatever. That
was just an idea I wanted to share.
Hope you understand now. ;)
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Fabio
( Fabio Olive Leite leitinho@akira.ucpel.tche.br )
( Computer Science Student http://akira.ucpel.tche.br/~leitinho/ )
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