On Mon, 07 May 2012 22:40:01 +0800 XeCycle wrote: > Violations of this philosophy can be easily found. The Linux > kernel is such one. It is already big, with many misfeatures, or > "anitfeature"s; but we all use it, right? Linus said such a > design simplifies the intercommunication between kernel modules. I disagree, your obviously clutching at straws, OpenBSD, no modules but monolithic yes. Many argue for and against monolithic or kernels such as QNX where drivers can't hang the kernel (atleast in theory). This is irrelevent. Simple tools do become more than they're parts. grep, cut, tr, cat and do they're particular job well and with less bugs. Init is a simple job. The main case you didn't bring up is perhaps where speed is paramount. I can't think of any others of the top of my head and certainly none that apply to whether the ultimate dependency, init, should be complex. Imagine a system where the kernel had been stripped down to kilobytes yet init was megabytes. p.s. I wouldn't mind knowing more about event driven too. I believe I was given an impression of what it was when systemd first hit ubuntu but I can't remember finding out exactly. A quick google just now turned up nothing.
