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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Implementing `fork' in a single address space
Message-ID: <10131@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 19:30:19 GMT
Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I'd like to write a micro-unix to run in a single Un*x address space.
I'm having problems figuring out how to implement `fork' correctly in
one address space.  Perhaps it's impossible.  I'm willing to have
stack frames point at the other guy's data, but the only ways that I
can think of to get stacks to return right are:

* To walk back the stack and patch up the retunr addresses -- scary!

* Have all stacks live at one place in the address space.  That
  requries swapping stacks at every context switch.

Perhaps a related question:

* Are there any pd (public-domain, or freeware) micro-unicies that I
  can look at?  I remember that you used to be able to get a 3-ring
  binder with the version 6 source, but I don't know if you had to
  have a source liscence and all that.

Thoughts?  Thanks!

	;-D on  ( Unix is a tratemark of Bell Laboratories )  Pardo
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