Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Alan Cox]

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

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