Re: object management and IPC a bit more formal

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Well, that does solve the problem of subsystem IDs allocation.  However,
> on 32-bit arches, there would be just a few bits (2, 3 or 4 according to
> Marcus' proposal) of thread IDs dedicated to subsystem IDs.  This leaves
> us with just a few subsystems.

Only if you want all of them to be of the same size.  You could split them
up in A, B and C classes like IP numbers are.

Thanks,
Marcus

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