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0 pointssaagarjha2mo ago0 comments

Is that IPC called Mach?

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Yes, and it’s quite inefficient compared to L4 or Zircon’s IPC so it isn’t used for anything that wouldn’t work just fine over a SEQPACKET socket using SCM_RIGHTS like Linux does. Is modern Windows a microkernel because ALPC exists?

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0 pointssaagarjha2mo ago0 comments

Is that IPC called Mach?

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johncolanduoni2mo ago

Yes, and it’s quite inefficient compared to L4 or Zircon’s IPC so it isn’t used for anything that wouldn’t work just fine over a SEQPACKET socket using SCM_RIGHTS like Linux does. Is modern Windows a microkernel because ALPC exists?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse