Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:16:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Well - there is. Because function calling leads to things like > ioctl(). And ioctl() is _evil_. Yes, linux-kernel interface without
ioctl is fortunately rarely high performance, but your observation about ioctl is sound. Its quite icky in Mosix the way it calls back to get the data from userspace.
> PS: Well - there is such forwarder in development around here. It does > not forward ioctl()s for obvious reasons :-). Major thing for > clustering seems to be 32bit pids just now.
You also know about bproc ?
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