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it to the userland, as servers. Due to having less code running in privileged kernel mode (less attack surface),
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microkernels can be more safer than monolithic ones.
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A central concept of microkernels are the *servers*, which run in userland and implement
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A central concept of microkernels are the *servers* ([daemons](daemon.md)), which run in userland and implement
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the functionality that monolithic kernels do in the kernel side (file systems, drivers, memory management).
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Servers aren't different from regular user processes, only that have additional privileges (for accessing hardware directly, for example)
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and communicate with the kernel and with other servers using [interprocess communication (IPC)](ipc.md) mechanisms.
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however where demonstrated to not be an inherent design characteristic, but an implementation one. The L4 family
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of microkernels demonstrated that IPC can be as fast as regular syscalls on a monolithic kernel.
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Some notable microkernels are:
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## Notable microkernels
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- Mach
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- L4 and its descendants, such as seL4; known for its high-performance IPC, as fast as a monolithic kernel.
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- Minix: [Unix](unix.md)-like kernel. Most notably, a heavily modified version of it runs in the Intel's backdoor known as
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"Management Engine".
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- QNX
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- [Minix](minix.md): [Unix](unix.md)-like kernel. Most notably, a heavily modified version of it runs in the Intel's [ME](intcel_me.md) [backdoor](backdoor.md).
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- QNX: proprietary real time microkernel from the 80's.
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