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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
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Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 10:04:55 +0100
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> Surely message passing differs from pointer passing by the mere
> addition of synchronisation?!

Maybe you don't even need that:

	msg = mallocmsg(...);
	sendp(chan, msg);

Is it a pointer? Sure. Is it a message? Sure. Do we need locks
if we transfer ownership (which is an abstract concept)? Not sure.

IMHO, Linus really needs to read /sys/src/cmd/acme/xfid.c