Re: Reliability of RPC services

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

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