Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers | Date | 11 Nov 1999 04:47:04 GMT |
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Followup to: <382A258F.B8827D52@timpanogas.com> By author: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Mike, > > NT is a microkernel, and you are correct, the complexity of the NT FS > drivers is about 100 times what's in Linux. By way of example, just the > Read-Only version of the NT file system for NWFS IFS code is almost > three times the size as the core code of NWFS itself. What I open > source on Linux is this core. The NT R/W IFS is even more complex, and > uses structured expection handling and just the IFS portion for Windows > 2000 is five times the size of the NWFS core. The unwind cases dealing > with C++ exceptions raised in the NT kernel are mind-numbing. > > Jeff >
The horror, the horror...
-hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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