On 13/02/2008, at 9:14 AM, John Carter wrote:
What ever the merits of the grand debate about Micro vs Monolithic
Kernels are....
I am not trying to be pedantic here, or maybe I am ;-) but...
The difference between micro-kernels and monolithic kernels is not
about having loadable modules.
Informally the difference is that 'modules' access other services
offered by other modules in the OS using a message passing mechanism.
In linux once a module is loaded it can directly call any kernel API
it likes, directly.
/me braces for the inevitable pedantry chain-reaction.
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Delio
