On 10/11/2014 12:20 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 Oct 2014 at 12:49:15 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:53:20 +0300 >> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You might want to check your facts: >>> >>> Linus Torvalds "only" created the Linux kernel, which is notoriously >>> monolithic[1]. >>> >>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate >> >> This is very true, but the kernel knows its boundaries, and doesn't try >> to conquor all sorts of other, non-related, subsystems. > > What does that mean? It sounds deep but plumbing the depths of its > shallowness is a task for someone with more time than the universe has > got. > > It's pretty simple. The kernel has actual, literal boundaries, which it enforces. The part of the system you use is outside those boundaries, with certain mechanisms for passing data between user-space and kernel-space. If you took time away from insulting people on mailing lists to crack a book once in a while, you might know that.
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