Re: A comment about changing kernels

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 16:45 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:53:43 -0500,
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > However, these delegations are dynamically very rare in comparison to
> > *uses* of capabilities. As an imperfect intuition: delegation tends to
> > occur during program setup, but rarely during program steady-state
> > execution. A delegation:use ratio of 1:100 or even 1:1000 would not be
> > an unreasonable expectation.
> 
> Does this include capabilities returned in the return of the call?
> Like, for example in dir_open?
>  
> Thanks,
> Marcus

When you consider the overall use of the system, yes. Calls to
dir_open() are rare in comparison to calls to read() or write(), for
example.

shap