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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-04-13 10:44:46 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200
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-[[!meta title="What is a Multiserver Microkernel?"]]
-
-A Microkernel has nothing to do with the size of the kernel. Rather, it refers
-to the functionality that the kernel provides. It is generally agreed that
-this is; a set of interfaces to allow processes to communicate and a way to
-talk to the hardware. *Software drivers*, as we like to call them, are then
-implemented in user space as servers. The most obvious examples of these are
-the TCP/IP stack, the ext2 filesystem and NFS. In the case of the Hurd, users
-now have access to functionality that, in a monolithic kernel, they could never
-use, but now, because the server runs in user space as the user that started
-it, they may, for instance, mount an FTP filesystem in their home directory.
-
-For more information about the design of the Hurd, read the paper by Thomas
-Bushnell, BSG:
-[[Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design|hurd-paper]].