Re: Pthread assumption + starting real port

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: address@hidden (Niels Möller)
Subject: Re: Pthread assumption + starting real port
Date: 16 Nov 2000 11:32:00 +0100

> Well, on a micro kernel that only have a single message send function
> that handles all message sizes equally well, all the "ipc_send_N"
> functions could macro expand into calls to the same underlying ipc
> call. The idea is to privide the "libmom" layer with enough
> information for it to be well optimized for a particular micro kernel.
> Message size seems like a reasonably generic and useful parameter for
> doing that. 

  IMO, that isn't useful very much, because differences among various
IPC mechanisms can be relaxed by an IDL. In Hurd, IPC calls are seldom
used directly. The exception is only when MiG doesn't provide enough
information.

Okuji