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RE: OT: possible project/research project
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:32:17 -0800
- Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project
- References: <00c501c1cfaf$50e1db50$0200a8c0@sknet01>
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 2002-03-19, 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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