Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 18:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, bakul@netcom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pthreads Message-ID: <199507300115.SAA00835@exit.com> In-Reply-To: <199507300010.RAA07970@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jul 29, 95 05:10:07 pm
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> Kirk McKusic and co. had a discussion on this topic > when I didi the BSD4.4 course at UCB.. > they were of the opinion that with recent changes to the > efficiency of forking, the answer was to create the new > 'rfork' call, where a forking process can decide what resources it wants > to share with it's child.. > options include: > text space data space, stacks, file descriptor tables etc. This might be a good idea, but 'rfork' might not be such a good name for the call, since it connotes 'remote' rather than 'resource' and certain builders of distributed systems have already co-opted that system call name for a 'remote fork' facility. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com
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