From: tedennison@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Program error from assignment??
Date: 1998/07/24
Date: 1998-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6pa155$dnd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6p7rhs$9ra$1@platane.wanadoo.fr
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In article <6p7rhs$9ra$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> dennison@telepath.com a �crit dans le message
> >(shudder)
>
> Not at all, think about how Unix starts. Single user mode, then starting
> severall tasks that call the main program will turn the system into
> multi-user mode...
I guess that expalins "fork()".
It would still be much clearer to have the main task be some kind of "kernel"
process and have other procedures implement user processes. Of course OS's
rarely strive for clarity.
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-21 0:00 Program error from assignment?? dennison
1998-07-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-07-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-22 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-23 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-24 0:00 ` tedennison [this message]
1998-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-23 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-23 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
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