Message passing

[William S. Frantz]

The KeyKOS message passing function is an example of the KeyKOS
philosophy of not forcing programs which don't need a feature
to endure its overhead.  Gather read/scatter write is an example.

BTW specifying which key slots provide/sink which parameters is
the only way you can specify which slot to use since all key
manipulation is through messages (mostly to the microkernel).

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