Coroutines in C

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Wed Aug 16 00:52:05 AEST 1989


In article <14281 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>Wasn't there such a library (cofork(), cowait(), etc.) for the pdp11 back in
>V6 or early V7?  I never used it, but I recall having seen it described.

Yes, it's in section VII (user-maintained subroutines) of the Sixth 
Edition (May 75) manual.

The routines were actually called crfork(), crexit(), crread(), crwrite()
crexch() and crprior().

-- Richard
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