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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:05:16 -0800
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Grigor Gatchev <grigor@zadnik.org>
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Subject: Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:18:12PM +0200, Grigor Gatchev wrote:
> As for directions and adding code: Nobody ever, AFAIK, has intentionally
> pushed the kernel towards this layered model. And the kernel source is
> already structured in a way convenient to go with it, and for the last
> three years was going exactly in this direction! That is why it seems
> to me that this is the internal logic of the kernel development.

See STREAMS and how well it worked.