On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you mean, the all 9 subsystems works through 9P and filesystems, > > that safe for kernel? > > the kernel doesn't actually implement all that much, and most complex things > are outside the kernel. the biggest exceptions are networking > and low-level device drivers, but the interface to those is small, > or even tiny. the device drivers aren't that big either. > the network has been in and out of the kernel at different times over the > years. > > qnx is probably the most reasonable so-called microkernel i've seen described > (but i haven't seen their code).
It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels?
