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Re: OSKit and processes



>>I'm not sure I understand your LTD statement then ...
>
>Hmm...  I'm not quite sure how to explain what I mean.  I want all processes
>to be in the same flat address space but protected from each other, as
>opposed to how Unix does things where everything is in its own address
>space.  I am still in the early planning stages though and would love to
>hear other people's analysis of the pros and cons of this memory model.

You probably mean a segmented model...

An interesting project that does this is here:
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~gel/go.html
No downloadable code, though :(

Why do you want to do this ?  If your main motive is speed, you'll probably
want to look at L4's small address space model:
http://i30www.ira.uka.de/publications/pubcat/As-pent.ps.

Ramon