Of course this goes to a General Resolution
Of course this goes to a General Resolution
Posted Feb 12, 2014 19:13 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)In reply to: Of course this goes to a General Resolution by josh
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes
Congratulations, you just invented microkernels. Unfortunately, memory management and IPC are among the three things that really have to be in the kernel (the third one being scheduling), so I don't think what you proposed will ever happen.
Posted Feb 12, 2014 20:18 UTC (Wed)
by josh (subscriber, #17465)
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Not at all. This is more along the lines of the compatibility layers glibc has to implement old functionality on top of newer and better kernel bits, except compatible with arbitrary userspace code not using glibc.
> Unfortunately, memory management and IPC are among the three things that really have to be in the kernel (the third one being scheduling), so I don't think what you proposed will ever happen.
Yes, they have to be in the kernel; that doesn't make it impossible to deprecate one family of system calls, ioctls, or similar mechanisms and redirect them to a compatibility layer that calls the new kernel mechanisms.
Of course this goes to a General Resolution