Re: just curious

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:>    Not to mention the space abstraction... passing a descriptor allows you
:>    to abstract I/O operations of any size.  You could handle ten someones
:>    each trying to write a 2GB buffer to your userland VFS.  And people are
:>    always forgetting atomicy.  There is no expectation of atomicy with
:>    memory mappings but there is one for I/O operations like read() or write().
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:queuing == atomic ordering of ops?

    It would depend on how the device driver or VFS system decides to handle
    blocking situations in particular messages.  It would certainly make a
    VFS's job easier because it would start out with things inherently
    ordered and it could build a dependancy graph on the fly for active
    operations and selectively de-order non-dependant ops.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>