Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has chimed in on the recently flamed-up (again) micro vs monolithic kernel, but this time with an interesting and unexpected point of view. From the article: 'The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the caller or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?'"

Comments

Re:Obvious

[spacecowboy420]

Ok, I don't normally do this, but dude - either you're an idiot, or a troll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux/

Re:Multiple-processes: micro vs monolithic

[Lemming Mark]

Dude, if I had mod points you'd be getting some +5 funny love right now. :-)

Incidentally, my post would have been less monolithic if I'd remembered /. requires the

tags. Ah well.