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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tty watcher
Message-ID: <1196@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 12:26:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 12:26:53 1987
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <4763@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>I don't believe it -- *Minix* wins this round!!!  You see, the FS process,
>which implements the file system, *is* a user mode process.  Yes, it is
>loaded with the kernel, but it doesn't have to be...

Some clarification is needed here.  By "user mode" do you mean "not a
part of the kernel"?  I don't think the 8086 CPU has a user mode and a
privileged mode, so everything runs in user mode.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi