From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 18 12:33: 1 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 12:32:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D86337B69E for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01639; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:28:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:28:27 -0500 From: Mathew KANNER To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Andrew Reilly , Patryk Zadarnowski , Tony Finch , SteveB , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel type Message-ID: <20001218152826.E26902@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <6134.977051878@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <3A3DDFE9.5AD693B6@inpharmatica.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Matthew Seaman's message [Re: kernel type] as of Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:59:05AM +0000 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Dec 18, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > [...] > > [...] > > As I remember, way back in the mists of 1990 when I first encountered a NeXT > box, one of the principal reasons for selecting the Mach 2.x micro kernel was > "mach messaging". This was a unified mechanism for almost all IPC both within > one host or distributed over a network, where eg. sockets (netork or unix > domain), pipes etc. were seen as abstractions of the core messaging function. > This fitted very well with the general OO design philosophy of the company. > If anyone has access to a copy of the socket(2) man page from any NeXTSTEP > version, I dimly remember there being an informative paragraph about this > point. I just took a peek at NeXTSTEP 3.2 and the text of the socket(2) man page is almost identical to that of FreeBSD 4.2. The only difference that I could see is that we support more domain types. I'm sure it's old news to you guys I think it's neat that we share history like that (they even have the "tune a fish" joke). --Mat -- Mathew Kanner SOCS McGill University Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message