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Re: Message passing in user-land
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James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: Message passing in user-land |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:03:55 -0700 (PDT) |
--- rreale@iol.it wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:13:30PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:21:55PM +0200, rreale@iol.it wrote:
> > > Why we can't implement message passing entirely in user-space rather
> > > than in the kernel?
> >
> > Imagine you remove all IPC from the kernel. How do you send a user-space
> > message to another process? You can't.
>
> But isn't it possible to build a sort of mechanism based on shared memory,
> thus avoiding the passage across the kernel?
>
> Roberto
>
Who delegates where the shared memory is and who has access to it?
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
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- Message passing in user-land, rreale, 2002/07/15
- Re: Message passing in user-land, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/07/15
- Re: Message passing in user-land, Niels Möller, 2002/07/16
- Re: Message passing in user-land, rreale, 2002/07/16
- Re: Message passing in user-land, Niels Möller, 2002/07/16
- Re: Message passing in user-land, rreale, 2002/07/16
- Re: Message passing in user-land, James Morrison, 2002/07/16
- Re: Message passing in user-land, rreale, 2002/07/17
- Re: Message passing in user-land, Niels Möller, 2002/07/16