[TUHS] If forking is bad, how about buffering?

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:04:23PM -0700, Bakul Shah via TUHS wrote:
> [1] This brings up a separate point: in a microkernel even a simple
> thing like "foo | bar" would require a third process - a "pipe
> service", to buffer up the output of foo! You may have reduced
> the overhead of individual syscalls but you will have more of
> cross-domain calls!

Do any micro kernels do address space to address space bcopy()?
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