Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Alan Cox
2004-08-31T12:00:20Z

On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 05:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > What about microkernels? They do tcp in userspace.
>
> No they don't. They do TCP in a separate address space from user space,
> that just also happens to be separate from the "microkernel address
> space".

Several do TCP in user space. The only thing you need in kernel for
TCP/IP is enough decode to decide who gets the packet. Even some non
microkernel embedded OS's do this in order to keep kernel size down.

Alan