I think the only real difference between a function call and a message
pass is that you can send a message asynchronously from the kernel to
a user application, while you need a different mechanism if you're
using system calls[1].
OG.
[1] Blocking syscalls waiting for the event, read() on fds, signals,
whatever.
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