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9P and Plumber are nothing like the rest, and kqueue is an I/O multiplexing mechanism. I'm unsure of why you consider 9P to be outmoded. It certainly can be av

• viraptor 11y ago
  You're right, I added plumber and kqueue after writing the comment, forgot to revise the text. (edited) It was more about corba/xpcom being rather heavy. Sure, kqueue is different, but it is a kind of local event/message (yeah, I'm aware it's a stretch). Sure, 9p can be available pre-init, but it doesn't provide sender verification. (i.e. you can't map the message to local uid) It could be added to the attributes of course, but it's not standard at the moment. Is that not right?
  • X-Istence 11y ago
    if kqueue is considered, add epoll, poll, select and others like it. Those are all event/message systems too...