[coyotos-dev] FCRB concept is broken

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 13/02/2007, at 8.51, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>I am feeling very cranky this morning, because I have just realized (I
>think) that FCRBs are broken. This means that the entire Coyotos message
>system is a bad design that should be abandoned. More precisely:
>
>  1. There is a bad (but simple) flaw in the current FCRB design.
>     It has three possible fixes.
>
>  2. Both fixes have unpleasant implications. They probably mean that
>     FCRBs are not a good idea.
>
>  3. Given these two statements, we need to ask whether FCRBs should be
>     abandoned and we should return to a simpler mechanism.

My feeling is that the design is becoming more and more complicated, at
some points it is hard to understand the big picture. Returning to a
simpler mechanism would be good.

val