OK! I give up. 1) What is an endpoint?
Once I know that I will know what a capability or an IPC endpoint is. Been searching for this information on the net and I have not so far come up with anything. On 28/10/05, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not recall if I have described the gap from Coyotos to EROS here. I > have just updated the comparison page at > > http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/eros-comparison.html > > Surprisingly, the items haven't changed much since I first wrote it. If > you read the list of changes, what you will conclude is that > > a) This is a total kernel rewrite. We can borrow a lot of code and > ideas from the EROS kernel, but we are touching enough places that > it really isn't the same kernel. > > b) With the exception of endpoints, none of the changes are > conceptually very large. We have refined various data structures > and simplified some of them, but the basic ideas and concepts of > EROS are pretty clearly preserved in Coyotos. > > c) A few programs will change significantly because endpoints and > events will have significant impact on these programs. > > The really important thing here is that the basic design model and idiom > hasn't changed. This means that the intuition and experience we have > from EROS is very directly applicable in Coyotos. > > > shap > > > > _______________________________________________ > L4-hurd mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd > _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
