[coyotos-dev] Contrasting Coyotos, EROS & Keykos

Norman Hardy norm at cap-lore.com
Fri Jan 21 21:25:08 EST 2005


On Jan 21, 2005, at 6:09 PM, EricNorthup wrote:

.......

> recipient.  If a server process can get a capability to the Node which
> contains its capability registers, then it can do one-shot zero-copy 
> IPC
> too: just map the "capability register root" node into the address 
> space
> tree somewhere.

That's sick. (a compliment) We never tried that.
It might have caused some slow paths to be taken in the kernel but
I can't think of any. It might have provoked some bugs, but not in
the kernel design, I think.
>

Norm Hardy: <http://cap-lore.com>
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our 
side.
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