Fault Containment Domains

[Bryan Ford]

>   And in any case, as long as the changes you make [to Mach] are well
>   planned and thought out, I will be more than happy to incorporate
>   them back into the main Mach distribution so that lots of other
>   people can start banging on it and helping out with the grunt work.
>
>It seems unlikely to me that you will want to do this in the end.  The
>changes that I have in mind are not compatible enhancements to Mach.
>I suspect that they are a fairly fundamental paradigmatic
>restructuring of the system.  The point of looking into starting from
>Mach is limiting the amount of restructuring that I have to do at
>once.

I think you're underestimating the amount of fundamental restructuring
we're willing to make in Mach.  Backwards compatibility is an issue,
but not of extreme importance.  ("What, you mean I have to change ALL THREE
existing Mach servers to work with the new kernel!?" :-) )

				Bryan