From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: If forking is bad, how about buffering?
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 18:21:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240519012114.GU9216@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D556958-0C7F-43F3-8694-D7391E9D89DA@iitbombay.org>
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:04:23PM -0700, Bakul Shah via TUHS wrote:
> [1] This brings up a separate point: in a microkernel even a simple
> thing like "foo | bar" would require a third process - a "pipe
> service", to buffer up the output of foo! You may have reduced
> the overhead of individual syscalls but you will have more of
> cross-domain calls!
Do any micro kernels do address space to address space bcopy()?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-19 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-13 13:34 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-13 22:01 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-14 7:10 ` Rob Pike
2024-05-14 11:10 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-15 14:42 ` Dan Cross
2024-05-15 16:42 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-19 1:04 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 1:21 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2024-05-19 1:26 ` Serissa
2024-05-19 1:40 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 1:50 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 2:02 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-19 2:28 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 2:53 ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-19 8:30 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-05-19 2:26 ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-19 16:04 ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-14 22:08 ` George Michaelson
2024-05-14 22:34 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 10:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
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