From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 14:10:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130CC37C120 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:10:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([200.41.111.208]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4062; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:09:37 -0400 Message-ID: <38EE49A9.FD59F18@asme.org> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:48:41 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gustavo V G C Rios Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? References: <38ED128C.22C3AA28@tdnet.com.br> <20000406192206.N22104@fw.wintelcom.net> <38ED233E.74716D02@tdnet.com.br> <20000406230234.B4381@fw.wintelcom.net> <38EDD209.421EF9B0@tdnet.com.br> <38EE0536.F2305A40@quack.kfu.com> <38EDDBC4.51F2414D@tdnet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (Moved to chat) Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > ... > If microkernel has such a drawnbacks, why QNX is so fast and reliable? > Should you download it too, and realize what i mean. > Don't believe everything you read...the world is full of people that love to prove others are wrong :-). ... > Thanks a lot for the patience. > > PS: I am just a beginner, so, don't take me wrong. The fact is that i am > really confused about what books say about microkernel and what in that > single demo floppy. I would be really glad to have some here to kindly > clarify it to me. > There's always room for more confusion; read something about Exokernels now :-). FWIW, I think we are pretty much married with the monolithic kernel plus some flexible tools/techniques like kld's and stacking fs to get over the known problems. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message