Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 9, 2006 @06:34PM from the never-met-a-pointer-i-could-trust dept.

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)?'"

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Re:Linus Quote by Arker · 2006-05-09 18:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

Looks like an interesting thread. Sadly their server is smoking already. I'll check it out in the morning.

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Say what?! by Inoshiro · 2006-05-09 19:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

"All popular OS kernels are monolithic."

I must've skipped into a parallel world where Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 were not somehow based on the microkernel NT Exective.

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