OT: possible project/research project

Tue Mar 19 23:04:00 GMT 2002

Sir,
We await your improved model for process control and the operating system 
that implements it.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
 -- Samuel Johnson
At 18:51 2002年03月19日, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>I don't see it that the source of the problem is the implementation of 
>fork/vfork; the way I see it the very *concept* of forking makes little to 
>no sense. I've written a lot of code, and not once have I thought to 
>myself, "ok, now what I want to do here is duplicate the current process 
>in almost exactly its current state." Maybe it made more sense back in 
>the day, or maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me there's a lot 
>more efficient ways to do multithreading/multi"process"ing/IPC/etc (or 
>better yet avoid them altogether) these days.
>>--
>Gary R. Van Sickle
>Brewer. Patriot.

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