design change -- IPC semantics

[Bill Frantz]

At 8:24 PM -0700 8/31/99, shapj@us.ibm.com wrote:
>**5. The "write numbers" operation on node keys is hereby retired, though this
>may not be permanent.  In practice, it's main use is populating data registers
>during process creation, which is better done using read registers and write
>registers on the process capability.  The "create number key in slot N"
>operations are retained.

In KeyKOS, we frequently used this operation to populate a segment node
with window keys.  (We never initialized process registers with this
operation.)


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