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Revisiting Unikernels

Oxide and Friends

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Is the Unit Kernel Addressable in Hubris?

Adam: I think that in fanically, hubris is not a unit kernel. But you just yelled at me for saying that the stack, the stack space thing in hubris is addressable. And so it was very important in hubris to make sure that when this stack overflows, it hits a protection boundary and the task dies. You know, I guess I don't have any experience with those kinds of systems. But my intuition about some complex systems that I've worked with is that the maximum stack depth is far greater than the practical stack depth. So I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, but I think in practical terms, you may end up wasting more resources

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