[okl4-developer] IPC timeouts

[Jorge Torres]

Hi Peter,

I'm not sure if the following is correct, but one reason I can think of, and
it has been talked about is that IPC timeouts can be  developed outside the
microkernel by a timeout server, last person that asked this, pointed that
such thing could only be possible if IPC receiver receives from anythread,
which I find true, but instead of taking IPC timeouts back into the kernel,
it should provide the mechanisms for IPC timeouts to be possibly implemented
outside, anyways,  having IPC timeouts inside the microkernel tights it to
the platform timer, and in ideal terms, access to system's timer should
happen only trough a user-level timer driver,  I'm sure there is a much more
accurate answer to this by Ben Leslie on the list archives.

Cheers,

Jorge

On 10/31/07, Peter Nguyen <peter.nguyen at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In a post that i sent about IPC timeouts, it was mentioned that this was
> removed.  I was wondering whether anyone can give me a reason why this
> decision was made, just out of curiosity.
>
> Thanks
> Peter N
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