Re: [dev] Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

From: <stanio_AT_cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:39:36 +0100

* Anselm R Garbe 2016-03-06 14:20
> On 6 March 2016 at 13:47, robin <robin.a.t.pedersen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Microkernels defenitely resonates with the unix philosophy "do one thing and
> > do it well".
> > Having everything, except FUSE and such, in the kernel is doing more than
> > one thing.
>
> IMHO the architectural decision for a monolith (==static linkage)
> often reduces the management bloat of dynamic loading or similar
> "extension" approaches that you end up with in a microkernel
> architecture.

you have dynamic vs static linkage problematic either way. that's
orthogonal.

microkernel is for me more about privileges and critical sections.
generally speaking, it definitely sucks less to have by design less
things that can badly go wrong.


--s
Received on Sun Mar 06 2016 - 15:39:36 CET