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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: vfork (was Re: Paging page tables)
Message-ID: <QFP4C9@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 14:41:06 GMT
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In article <855@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> barry@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Barry Traylor) writes:
> Thread creation is a different case, and I agree that a
> "spawn-like-function" is a better way to go.

For real-time operating systems where all processes are basically threads,
then spawn() is equally important. I suspect this might be an eventual point
of conflict between 1003.1 and 1003.4.
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