Fork of a Different Color

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Wed Aug 21 03:53:28 AEST 1985


A couple of us U of MD hackers were making random comments about Unix,
lightweight processes, and so forth, and we decided that Unix needs
some new system calls to round it out:

	fork()		- make a copy of a process - modified:
			  the new one would take an argument
			  specifying whether the new process
			  should share the old one's memory.
	knife()		- cut apart shared memory
	spoon()		- dip into another process's memory

which I guess makes the virtual memory system a plate and the hardware
a table....  :-)
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(I can't believe I said that.)



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