From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 24 8:28:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.ham.muohio.edu (dragon.ham.muohio.edu [134.53.141.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128D914CF2 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 08:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by dragon.ham.muohio.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04661; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:43:29 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: dragon.ham.muohio.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:43:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Howard X-Sender: howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu To: Kip Macy Cc: miaobo@mail.zhongxing.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:Re: Code In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > Typically it refers to moving a process and all its associated attributes > from one machine to another. There are a lot of problems with it, to > the best of my knowledge the only OS that ever managed to get it right was > Berkeley's Elf which was designed with it in mind from the beginning. > Osterhout, the professor heading the group, said afterwords that the costs > exceeded the gains. Was Elf related to Sprite? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message