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Re: Reliability of RPC services
From: |
Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: Reliability of RPC services |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:28:54 -0400 |
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 22:46 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I like Shapiro's idea about watchdogs which don't bite, but only bark. ;-)
> (He didn't use that terminology, but I think it's nice. :-) )
I have a rottweiler with this property. :-)
> > > A user logs in to a terminal, and his session receives the corresponding
> > > capabilities. One of them will be for the usb bus, where he can register
> > > any device driver he wants....
> >
> > Are the device drivers (D) provided by the operating system or the
> > user?
>
> By the user. The idea is that you can bring your own driver for your device,
> and don't need the system administrator to install it in order to use your
> device. I'd expect a Hurd system to be able to do that. :-)
A large (and increasing) number of drivers have access to physical DMA.
As a result, letting the user bring their own drivers is exactly
equivalent to letting them install their own OS.
shap
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, (continued)
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services,
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/26
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver, 2006/04/26
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/26
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Michal Suchanek, 2006/04/26
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/26
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/25
- Re: Reliability of RPC services, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/26