libports on l4

[James Morrison]

   Hi,
 
  I recently read that Neal may try to emulate libports on l4, and while waking
 up I thought of this crack pot idea.  
 
  What I know:  Messages are synchronous and passed directly to threads with
 l4.
 
 Idea:  When the task/program is started a ports_thread is started that creates
a data structure(s) on the heap.  All messages are sent to the ports_thread
and placed into the data structure(s).  When a thread is looking for a message
it can wait until there is a message placed into the data structure(s).
 


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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