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To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: getsysfd() patch #1 (Re: Virtual memory question) 
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030116100226.59693C-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:
>
>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>>     I think we've established the usefulness of a VM Object descriptor.  Now
>>     what about the system call API?  At the moment I have:
>
>Since we appear to be building a new API and IPC semantic from the ground
>up, I think it would be worthwhile to look at some of the other weird,
>wonderful, or perhaps just bizarre, things that others have done in the
>past.

I would like to see it being developed, tested, benchmarked and find
at least one application before we add YAIPC to FreeBSD's sources...

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