Re: About microkernels & hurd direction ....

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Jan Atle Ramsli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> That would permit 'asynchronous' reception and honoring of requests, not
> waiting for validation, but going on immediately to the next request.

Many (perhaps all?) servers already handle messages in separate
threads, so slowdowns shouldn't block processing of other
requests.  See ports_manage_port_operations_multithread in
libports/manage-multithread.c.