Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Yes and no. Microkernels have significant advantages for certain
things. One of the *big* things they have advantages in is security
since everything is very compartmentalized.
First of all, microkernels do not *necessarily* mean that you have
things very compartmentalized. *Multi-server* solutions on top of a
microkernel does. Aside from very limited function security focused
solutions, the counter argument is that the resultant code is so complex
that it ends up being *harder* to ensure correctness. This is far from a
settled debate.
--Chris
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