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From: tedennison@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Program error from assignment??
Date: 1998/07/24
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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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